Rural Interests Ask FCC to Seek Comment on Revised White Spaces Rules
Forty-four carriers, equipment providers and rural broadband advocates sought a Further NPRM on changing TV white spaces rules. “Our deployments are giving us real-world experience in how a set of pragmatic changes to FCC rules would allow us to reach…
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even more Americans, without causing harmful interference to incumbent licensees,” said a letter to commissioners posted Friday in docket 16-56. The group said the changes it's seeking are consistent with arguments by Microsoft. Axiom, the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, Nominet, Rise Broadband, Rural Wireless Association, Windstream and the others seek “higher power for fixed devices in rural areas where we can operate without causing harmful interference to broadcasters,” freedom to place antennas at taller heights “governed by a new protection mechanism,” narrowband IoT supporting such applications as precision agriculture and environmental sensing and “geofenced operation on moving vehicles.”