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The FCC should reject a Harris petition (http://xrl.us/bm9s7q) asking the...

The FCC should reject a Harris petition (http://xrl.us/bm9s7q) asking the agency to hold that equipment manufactured for public safety use must meet the more stringent H-mask, rather than the B-mask, Alcatel-Lucent said. The request is “unnecessary, repetitive and anticompetitive,” Alcatel…

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said in comments (http://xrl.us/bndo65). Alcatel said the petition appears related to Harris’s unhappiness that Alcatel won a contract to provide communications equipment to New Jersey Transit. “The Harris Petition is simply one of Harris’s many filings in WT Docket No. 11-69, representing a collateral attack by Harris on NJT’s selection of Alcatel-Lucent’s proposal to meet the communications needs of NJT using PowerTrunk’s digital land mobile radio solution in the 800 MHz band,” Alcatel said. “From the moment NJT chose Alcatel-Lucent’s proposal as best meeting NJT’s needs with respect to price and functionality, Harris has explored every angle to block that decision to no avail, including by incorrectly claiming that the Commission rules did not permit NJT’s proposed operations.”