Wireless ISP Fined for Doppler Interference at San Juan Airport
Puerto Rico’s DWireless agreed to pay an $11,000 civil penalty, implement a compliance plan and admit it operated unlicensed devices in an unauthorized manner, causing interference to FAA terminal Doppler weather radar, the FCC said Thursday. The bureau initially proposed…
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a $25,000 penalty, but the wireless ISP “demonstrated that it could not pay the full amount of the proposed fine,” the bureau said. The violations concerned devices configured to operate on a 40 MHz channel centered on 5.585 GHz, which affected radar at San Juan International Airport, the bureau said.