FCC System Now Allows Parties to File Seeking Program Licenses
The FCC is tweaking its experimental licensing system and can now accept applications for program licenses, said Julius Knapp, chief of the Office of Engineering, in a Friday blog post. In a typical year, OET grants more than 2,000 experimental…
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licenses, Knapp said. “Many of the services and technologies deployed today were first tested under the experimental licensing program. In fact, many experimental licenses are currently supporting work looking towards the introduction of next-generation 5G services.” Program licenses are “designed to streamline the process for institutions that regularly file for experimental applications such as universities, R&D development companies, and medical institutions and also conduct a large portion of their experiments within geographic areas under their control,” Knapp said. The new program licenses provide for "Innovation Zones," areas the FCC can define and make available for experiments, he said. NYU Wireless said in a news release it became the first applicant to receive the program experimental license using the new portal. "The license will allow the center to do cutting-edge work throughout the spectrum, not just at frequencies critical to 5G, but also far beyond," said Ted Rappaport, director of NYU Wireless. "The FCC's move today launches a new tool that will hopefully reduce the wait time for government authorization to do cutting-edge research and experimental transmissions.”