Comments Mostly Support CTIA-Sought Data Collection Changes
The Competitive Carriers Association disagrees with CTIA on one change CTIA sought on the FCC’s digital opportunity data collection rules (see 2105200021). CTIA asked to eliminate a requirement that mobile broadband providers submit “signal-strength ‘heat’ maps or, at minimum, require…
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these maps to be submitted only upon request.” CCA said the disclosure of received signal strength indicator or reference signal received power “will provide useful information that will improve the quality of the collected data and help the Commission and industry assess and compare coverage maps,” in a filing posted Monday. CCA agreed with CTIA that the FCC should eliminate a requirement to “model in-vehicle coverage for each mobile wireless technology because such in-vehicle maps would be unnecessarily burdensome.” Focus on “the quality of the data collected rather than the quantity of maps,” CCA advised. T-Mobile backed CTIA complaints the FCC should drop a decision “to require mobile wireless providers to model in-vehicle coverage” and “to deny confidential treatment to mobile wireless providers’ link budgets.” Cutting “the requirement to submit in-vehicle coverage maps, which are much harder to replicate, would avoid unnecessary complications with the … challenge process and make it easier to implement other verification processes,” the carrier said. The Wireless ISP Association backed CTIA arguments against base fines of $15,000 for every “materially inaccurate or incomplete portion” of a data submission. “The Commission provides no explanation for adopting a base forfeiture that is five times higher than the base forfeitures for comparable programs other than a simple statement that this amount ‘reflect[s] the importance of the filings at issue’ and will ‘encourage compliance,’” WISPA said. Comments on two CTIA petitions were due Friday in docket 19-195.