Progeny’s controversial network offering advanced location services in...
Progeny’s controversial network offering advanced location services in its 900 MHz Multilateration Location and Monitoring Service spectrum could play a big role in improving E911 location accuracy, the National Emergency Number Association said in a filing at the FCC. “NENA…
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takes no position with respect to the technical aspects of Progeny’s test methods or results,” the letter said (http://bit.ly/ZrLv7D). “However, ... M-LMS technologies such as Progeny’s represent a tremendous opportunity to enable immediate and dramatic improvements in wireless location accuracy in precisely those areas of the country that are the most challenging for existing technologies.” The FCC’s decision on whether it will grant Progeny a waiver has big implications for the entire M-LMS industry, NENA said. “Progeny is the first M-LMS provider to begin deployment of a functioning network,” the group said. “Should Progeny be excluded from the market based on the objections of incumbents seeking to override the shared nature of the ... band by essentially squatting on that spectrum, the M-LMS market envisioned by the Commission’s Part 90 rules could be destroyed before it even comes into existence.”