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Don't Rethink M-LMS Orders, Inovonics Tells FCC

Inovonics Wireless told the FCC it opposes recent requests by multilateration location and monitoring service (M-LMS) licensees for more time to build out their 900 MHz licenses. “These licenses were ripe for termination because, after almost twenty years, the M-LMS…

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licensees still had not made use of their licenses and had no valid explanations for not putting their licenses into service,” the company said in a filing in docket 16-385. Inovonics cited applications for review by Helen Wong-Armijo and FCR, and petitions for reconsideration. “Given the hundreds of millions of unlicensed devices deployed in the 902-928 MHz band, it is in the public interest for manufacturers and users of this equipment to have regulatory certainty with regard to potential band sharing with M-LMS licensees, and to put an end to the spectrum warehousing,” the company said. Wong-Armijo said in a December petition that “no commercially available equipment is available to the licensees to construct an M-LMS system.” FCR argued similar.