Enterprise Wireless Association Says WIA Wrong on 800 MHz Expansion
The Enterprise Wireless Alliance said the Wireless Infrastructure Association is the only opponent of a Land Mobile Communications Council proposal that the FCC provide a six-month window to incumbent 800 MHz licensees to add expansion band (EB) and guard and…
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(GB) channels to existing systems before opening the spectrum to new entrants. WIA said last month in docket 16-261 the FCC should “encourage competition in the EB and GB channels by continuing policies that do not give incumbent operators priority access to available EB or GB channels, which could bar new entrants and deter innovation.” WIA is wrong, EWA President Mark Crosby said in a Friday statement. “Incumbents are as likely to introduce innovation as are new entrants,” Crosby said. “WIA’s suggestion ignores the track record established by public safety, manufacturing, utility, aviation, pipeline, and other entities … demanding and deploying increasingly efficient and advanced technologies that enable them to provide services to the public and to remain competitive in an increasingly challenging worldwide marketplace.”