Nex-Tech Wireless told the FCC it will soon be able to offer real-time text (RTT) to its customers. The provider “expects to complete implementation of RTT to 911 within the next 30-60 days based upon the latest information provided to Nex-Tech Wireless by its RTT vendor,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 16-145. The company is one of a group of smaller carriers that struggled to implement RTT (see 2012220031).

The C-band relocation payment clearinghouse has an Aug. 22 deadline for responding to a Mongoose Works appeal of clearinghouse decision, said an FCC Wireless Bureau public notice Wednesday. Mongoose's reply deadline is Aug. 29, it said.

The National Spectrum Management Association urged the FCC to incorporate Universal Licensing System data into the national broadband map. “Maps outlining existing, licensed and proposed fixed wireless deployments provide highly detailed information about planned and deployed systems that are broadband capable for backhaul and last mile,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 11-10: “NSMA suggests harnessing this data for the nation’s broadband map, including by allowing coordinators and licensees to submit it into the broadband mapping system.”

The National Science Foundation asked for protection for various radioastronomy sites if the FCC approves a waiver request by ContiTech to use radars in 76-81 GHz spectrum for mining, milling and tunneling operations. Comments were due on the waiver request Monday in docket 22-260 (see 2207080050). NSF asked that the company be prohibited from using the bands, “unless coordinated,” within 25 kilometers of 10 National Radio Astronomy Observatory very long baseline array sites and within 150 km of six observatories. NTIA submitted the comments to the FCC.

High-tech companies met virtually with staff from the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology to lay out a plan for a regulatory framework for the 60 GHz band. The plan proposes effective isotropic radiated power levels of 20 dBm in the lower part of the band, which is double the limit in current rules. “The Radar Representatives offer this proposal in the spirit of compromise to advance the resolution of the above-referenced proceeding and enable reasonable coexistence between a wide variety of unlicensed communications devices and radar devices, as well as other technologies, throughout the 60 GHz Band,” said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 21-264. Amazon, Google, IEE Sensing, Infineon Technologies Americas, Texas Instruments and Vayyar Imaging were on the call. The FCC sought comment last summer in a Further NPRM, seeking revised rules for short-range field disturbance sensor radars in the 60 GHz band (see 2107090047).

Allowing grandfathering of 60 GHz automotive safety equipment manufactured under previous waivers under revised rules for the band is important to public safety, IEE Sensing said in a comment to the FCC. “IEE Sensing is particularly concerned about being able to transition/migrate to the new rules without needing to try to implement a ‘flash cut,’ because given the long lead times in the automotive sector to introduce new technology, it would otherwise leave a gap before the re-engineered sensors were qualified and deployed,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 21-264: “Particularly given the life-saving nature of these sensors in this particular use case, such a gap would be contrary to the public interest.”

The FCC asked for comment by Aug. 23, replies Sept. 2, on a waiver request by Ericsson of 3.45 GHz rules to allow the company to offer a multiband radio. “Ericsson requests relief to permit the multiband device to exceed the 3.45 GHz service out of band emission levels in the 3.7 GHz band when the device is operating in carrier aggregation mode across both the 3.45 GHz and 3.7 GHz bands,” said a Monday notice by the Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology, in docket 22-298.

AT&T is offering the family members of FirstNet subscribers up to 25% savings on eligible unlimited wireless plans, all on a single account. AT&T said FirstNet has 3.7 million subscribers in more than 21,800 agencies and organizations. “For those who dedicate their lives to serving their communities, many only see the badge, the firehose, or the stethoscope; but first responders are also moms and dads, husbands and wives, daughters and sons,” the carrier said Monday.

APCO expressed appreciation for concessions offered by Gogo in an opposition to the public safety group’s petition for reconsideration (see 2208020060) but still has concerns about a waiver of effective radiated power limits for air-to-ground operations in the 849-851 MHz and 894-896 MHz bands (see 2206210068). “The Opposition does not dispel APCO’s concern that the Bureau lacked an adequate technical analysis of potential interference to public safety systems,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 21-282: “To the contrary, the Opposition cites precedent that highlights the importance of technical analyses for reaching the conclusion that interference to public safety licensees is unlikely.”

Dish Network joined RS Access in dismissing DirecTV's analysis about the viability of 5G/satellite sharing of the 12 GHz band (see 2208020049) as full of distortions. In a docket 20-443 filing Monday, Dish made many of the same arguments RS Access did and said the DirecTV study "showcas[es] the worst possible scenario no matter how implausible." Dish said the DirecTV study ignores 5G mitigation techniques like account horizon nulling and time variability, and it doesn't account for the direct broadcast satellite subscriber declines and DirecTV's minimal use of the 12 GHz band. DirecTV didn't comment.