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GWTCA Urges FCC to Rethink 4.9 GHz Order

The Government Wireless Technology & Communications Association urged the FCC to “restore its traditional role in spectrum management” and reconsider 2020's order reallocating the band to the states (see 2009300050), in a call with a Public Safety Bureau staffer. “Prioritization…

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of commercial broadband technologies and companies ... has been detrimental to the public safety communications industry,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 07-100. If the FCC “elects to retain its decision to assign 4.9 GHz licenses to the various states, and provide the states with authority to lease this spectrum to any entity, it must do so only after implementing a series of rules and policies to protect public safety licensees.”