By Jim Fryer, Managing Editor, Inside Towers
In
a statement issued yesterday by the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA),
the association expressed frustration at how various frequency advisory
committees (FAC’s) have been unable to reach a consensus on processing
800 MHz applications for the Expansion/Guard Band for land mobile use.
The EWA singled out the Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) as an
unsupportive entity among the FAC’s. The EWA fears the inaction will
produce hundreds of mutually exclusive applications that will have to be
sorted out one-by-one without a clear standard for determining
priority.
“The opportunity to arrive at a consensus among the Business/Industrial
and Public Safety frequency advisory committees (FACs) on how best to
process 800 MHz Expansion/Guard Band (EB/GB) applications that avoid
mutual exclusivity remains elusive after one year of effort,” the
statement read. The EWA said that last week, during a meeting with a
majority of the certified FACs in attendance, the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) staff informed the FACs that Commission
leadership had rejected the “round-robin” application approach. EWA
said it was because it was believed that it would prejudice FACs with a
greater number of applications to process and possibly cause customers
to move their applications to another FAC. Continue Reading
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