Single Commenter Objects to AEP Waiver Request
The Government Wireless Technology & Communications Association (GWTCA) raised objections in response to an FCC Wireless Bureau notice seeking comment on an American Electric Power request for a waiver allowing it to operate 800 MHz low-power temporary repeaters and “talk-around…
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on mobile units” in remote areas outside the range of its existing 800 MHz network (see 2311210028). Comments were due Thursday in docket 23-390. Only GWTCA filed. “GWTCA’s position is that the AEP waiver request should be granted only if the proposal is more narrowly tailored to the actual and specific needs of AEP, and should not be a substitute for reasonable construction of infrastructure facilities that are not co-channel and short-spaced to existing operations of other licensees,” the group said: “AEP has failed to provide advance notice to co-channel licensees which might be impacted by the proposal. Instead, AEP proposes to notify such licensees after any Commission grant of the Waiver Request. This deprives impacted licensees of the ability to effectively participate in this proceeding at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.”