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WISPA Seeks Outdoor Use of 5.9 GHz

Wireless ISP Association representatives urged FCC action permitting outdoor use of the 5.9 GHz band without waivers or grants of special temporary authority, in a call with an aide to Commissioner Nathan Simington. With more than 200 STA grants, WISPs…

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show “that fixed wireless providers can use this spectrum without causing cochannel interference to Intelligent Transportation System operations or federal operations,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 19-138: “The public interest would be better served by allowing these small providers to use … resources for deploying broadband service rather than for applying for STAs and waivers.” WISPA also sought point-to-multipoint operations with an effective isotropic radiated power of up to +36 decibel-milliwatts.