API Asks FCC for Pause on Broadband in 900 MHz Band
The American Petroleum Institute asked the FCC not to act on a proposal to reconfigure the 900 MHz band to allow for broadband until proponent Anterix “has undertaken the necessary work and conversations to understand the impact of its proposals…
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on the critical narrowband communications of API members.” API and members met Commissioner Mike O’Rielly, an aide to Chairman Ajit Pai and Wireless Bureau staff, said a filing posted Thursday in docket 17-200. Members such as ExxonMobil and Phillips 66 use their 900 MHz narrowband channels around the clock “for emergency and safety communications,” the group said: “The amount of spectrum at stake is small, but critical to API members’ narrowband communications and to safety inside and outside of their facilities.” The proposal got mixed reviews in comments last year (see 1907030028).