The FCC is asking for public input on streamlining its rules governing deployment of small cell infrastructure to support 5G services by improving the agency’s wireless facilities siting policies. The effort by the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau stems in part from a petition for Declaratory Ruling filed by Mobilitie, LLC titled: “Promoting Broadband for All Americans … Continue Reading
For several months now the question on many TV broadcasters' minds has been: will they or won't they take away my spectrum. Chairman Genachowski signaled the answer in a speech on February 24.… Continue Reading
Senator Olympia Snowe has sent a letter to the Commission which may encourage TV broadcasters fearful that their spectrum is doomed to be sacrificed to the seemingly bottomless Broadband Maw.… Continue Reading
Maybe now the FCC will look at requests for extensions of deadlines more sympathetically. The FCC has requested, and been granted, a four-week extension of the delivery date for the National Broadband Plan.… Continue Reading
If you've got a TV license, you've got a problem. The Commission has issued a formal request for comments focusing on the possible repurposing of TV spectrum for wireless broadband services.… Continue Reading
M2Z Networks has lost another bid for spectrum to build a nationwide wireless broadband network, as the U.S. Court of Appeals has rejected M2Z's petition for review of the FCC's 2007 denial of M2Z's bid.… Continue Reading