WISPA Warns Against Adopting NTIA Definition of Broadband
The Wireless ISP Association warned the FCC that adopting NTIA’s definition of “qualifying broadband” for new rules for the Alternative Connect America Model program would freeze out the use of unlicensed spectrum. The FCC “should continue to permit recipients to…
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have the flexibility to choose technologies that are appropriate to the situation, taking into account cost, quality of service, equipment capabilities, supply chain, population density, terrain and a host of other factors,” WISPA said in a filing posted Monday in docket 10-90. “Going forward, and in light of NTIA’s ill-conceived definition of ‘reliable broadband service,’ broadband providers that have relied on unlicensed spectrum to connect millions of unserved rural Americans must now question their ongoing and future investments,” emailed Louis Peraertz, WISPA vice president-policy: “If their innovative and privately funded networks are subject to government-funded overbuilding, that new policy … could force them out of business, even where they are providing 100/20 Mbps speeds or better, have low churn, high-quality service, and are meeting consumer demand.”