Rival Slams PSSA Proposal for Licensing 4.9 GHz Band
The Coalition for Emergency Response and Critical Infrastructure (CERCI) took aim at what it said is a Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA) proposal asking the FCC to issue a “nationwide overlay license” in the 4.9 GHz band to a band…
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manager to sign "a sharing agreement to hand over the spectrum to the First Responder Network Authority.” The two groups have a sharply divided vision on the best future for the band (see 2401190067). “PSSA would have the Commission turn the Band Manager role on its head," resulting in "the launch of a new lengthy, resource-intensive rulemaking,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 07-100. “PSSA would nullify the Band Manager’s two roles to coordinate public safety use and enable non-public safety access, instead proposing to make the Band Manager a licensee only to share the 4.9 GHz spectrum” with FirstNet, CERCI said.