Enterprise Wireless Alliance Raises 800 MHz Concerns
The Enterprise Wireless Alliance said the FCC should reject a push by M2M Spectrum Networks and the Wireless Infrastructure Association to persuade the agency not to provide 800 MHz incumbents with an advanced opportunity to access expansion band and guard…
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band spectrum. M2M and WIA earlier asked the FCC to “eliminate special privileges for incumbent users" in the 800 MHz band (see 1511250031). “Their success in finding trusts, doctors, dentists, other individuals, and [limited liability companies] -- communications novices -- to file in markets like Minot, North Dakota and Sioux City, Iowa suggests that the number of M2M-related applicants will be very substantial when the FCC makes this spectrum available in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other such markets,” EWA said in a filing in docket 16-261. “It is uncertain whether the prior frequency coordination process required to prevent the submission to the FCC of mutually exclusive applications can work, given the volume of applications the M2M Affiliates might be able to generate.” EWA sought meetings with staff for the three commissioners. The proposal was on a list of items discussed during a June 1 meeting between WIA President Jonathan Adelstein and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.