Enterprise Wireless Alliance Seeks FCC Rulemaking on 800 MHz Assignments
The Enterprise Wireless Alliance filed a petition for rulemaking at the FCC Wednesday seeking to modify Part 90 rules to eliminate the assignment of frequencies within the 809-816/854-861 MHz portion of the band to specific pools of eligible entities. “Despite…
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being subject to identical technical and operational rules, frequencies are assigned to either the Public Safety Pool, the Business/Industrial/Land Transportation (B/ILT) Pool, the Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) Category, or the General Category,” the group said in a news release. EWA recommends “that the optimum policy would be to classify all frequencies as General Category and make them available to all qualified applicants.” Eliminating “the multi-decade hypersubclassification of entirely fungible frequencies will promote optimal utilization of this spectrum while also doing away with unnecessary application review responsibilities for FCC staff and the associated processing delays, as well as cost and administrative burdens on applicants,” said the undocketed filing.