Requests for Access to Airport Spectrum Denied by FCC Bureau
The FCC Wireless Bureau denied requests by Bristol-Meyers Squibb and Mobile Relay Associates (MRA) to use airport terminal use (ATU) channels for their own operations. “The Commission specifically designated enough ATU frequencies to allow air carriers to use the same…
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frequency(ies) at each airport where they operate,” said an order released Wednesday. “The separation distances are intended to balance the interference protection needs of ATU users with the spectrum capacity requirements of non-ATU users. Grant of the instant requests would conflict with these purposes, for it would reduce the amount of spectrum set aside for current and future ATU operations below what may be needed and increase the potential for interference to current and future ATU communications.” ATU uses frequency pairs between 460/465.650 and 460/465.89375 MHz. Bristol-Meyers proposed to use the spectrum in New Jersey and Connecticut, MRA in Colorado, Florida and Nevada.