High-stakes spectrum lobbying gears up Last year, we reported on the proposed Mobile Now Act, the darling of U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Bill Nelson (D-FL), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, respectively. The bill aims to encourage broadband deployment. At that time, we noted that the Act had a … Continue Reading
Seven companies will simultaneously control multiple users across three priority levels in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service. The FCC hopes to launch new spectrum management techniques with the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), in which large numbers of users will share the spectrum with each other and with incumbents through a three-tiered access model. Each … Continue Reading
Rulemaking petition objects to satellite earth stations’ setting aside frequencies they may never need. Managing the radio spectrum is one of the FCC’s toughest, least appreciated jobs. The goal is to squeeze in as many users as possible, with the least interference among them. Often the FCC can get more out of a frequency band … Continue Reading
PCS Partners seeks 3GPP LTE use for thus-far-unused – and soon-to-be-expired – licenses. Nearly two years ago, we reported that the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau put Multilateration Location Monitoring Service (M-LMS) licensees in the hot seat: build out soon, or lose your licenses. “Soon” is almost upon us – the Bureau’s 2014 Order requires that all … Continue Reading
Despite 2012 interference to Newark airport GPS system, Gary Bojczak skates with lowball $2,360 fine – if he keeps his jammer off for three years. Readers with long memories will recall Mr. Gary P. Bojczak, who operated an illegal jammer in order (apparently) to defeat the GPS tracking device his employer had installed in his … Continue Reading
Crash-land your helicopter on polar ice? Sail into a reef with your yacht? Get lost in the deep jungle? No problem ... if you've got a Breitling Emergency!… Continue Reading
Thanks to sophisticated spectrum monitoring systems being developed, a wide variety of new uses are coming to the 3.5 GHz band, the home of the new Citizens Broadband Radio Service.… Continue Reading
A fixed TV database device in Ecuador ... or the mid-Atlantic? Yes indeed, according to the white space database - prompting the NAB to suggest that it's time to tighten things up.… Continue Reading
If you're planning on filing a petition for rulemaking with the FCC but you're out of paper, or maybe your printer is low on toner and the local Kinko's is closed, we've got good news for you.… Continue Reading
Some familiar faces from Capitol Hill are taking an alternative approach to trying to get the FCC to open up spectrum for wireless broadband.… Continue Reading
While the FCC is usually in the driver's seat when it comes to spectrum management in the U.S., that doesn't mean that Congress can't, and won't, occasionally engage in some aggressive backseat driving.… Continue Reading
Just a few years ago, technical constraints made it difficult to design equipment for the upper reaches of the millimeter wave bands. Since then, a corps of clever engineers have overcome the problems and applications have proliferated.… Continue Reading
