Enterprise Wireless Association Criticizes Tactics of Pennsylvania Compliance Firm
The Enterprise Wireless Association said it gets “numerous ‘Have You Seen This’ inquiries” every month from “unknowing” business/industrial land transportation (B/ILT) and public safety licensees targeted by Federal Licensing Inc., a firm near the FCC office in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The…
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firm warns licensees that if they don’t keep their license current, the “licensee is in direct violation of the FCC Rules and susceptible to newly imposed fines,” EWA said Wednesday: The letters suggest “the licensee might save itself from the wrath of the FCC by writing a $124 check to Federal Licensing.” Federal Licensing didn’t comment. “We hope more licensees would pause for just a moment and ask themselves ‘does this solicitation make any sense whatsoever?’” EWA said in a news release. “If Federal Licensing really wanted to do good, maybe they should send their solicitations to those that are using non-FCC compliant radios from Asia on an unlicensed basis. How do these folks sleep at night?”