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The FCC terminated a 2006 rulemaking proceeding looking...

The FCC terminated a 2006 rulemaking proceeding looking at possible changes to rules for the Multilateration Location and Monitoring Service (M-LMS) bands, in an order released Tuesday. The proceeding examined future use of the 904-909.75 and 919.75-928 MHz bands. M-LMS…

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licensee Progeny had sought the rulemaking in 2002, citing the “continued failure” of the bands. But there was little agreement when the FCC took comments eight years ago (CD June 1/06 p4). “We find that wholesale changes to existing M-LMS framework that the Commission sought comment upon in the M-LMS NPRM are not warranted and that the types of revisions that the Commission sought comment [on] are not necessary to provide sufficient flexibility to M-LMS licensees to provide their location services,” the FCC said now (http://bit.ly/1nvVmp1).