JVCKenwood Urges FCC to Reject EWA, PDV Petition
JVCKenwood urged FCC commissioners to deny or dismiss a spectrum proposal to make a private enterprise broadband (PEBB) allocation in the 900 MHz band. In an ex-parte letter Monday to all five commissioners, JVCKenwood said it’s aware of a Wireless…
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Bureau order circulating on the eighth floor about a 2014 petition by Enterprise Wireless Alliance and Pacific DataVision (see 1507170037). The petition is “fatally defective” and “no more than a transparent proposal for a spectrum giveaway, intended single-mindedly to feather the nest of both petitioners (especially PDV), to the exclusion of all others,” JVCKenwood said. The petitioners want the FCC to “award a single, exclusive license to a broadband service provider through a mechanism that avoids any competitive bidding (or any competition at all) and precludes any opportunity for the filing of a mutually exclusive application to become a PEBB licensee in a given market,” it said. “Nor is there any opportunity for other entities that might, in the presence of a competitive bidding opportunity, develop a far better business plan to implement a broadband system in this band that does not result in the disruption to incumbent and future narrowband licensees.”