M2M Spectrum Networks Asks FCC To Launch 900 MHz Rulemaking
M2M Spectrum Networks petitioned the FCC to initiate a rulemaking on allowing licensees of 900 MHz business/industrial land transportation (B/ILT) pool channels to serve other business clients without a waiver. “This rule is necessary to effectuate the flexibility to provide…
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third-party services that the Commission meant to introduce to the band in 2004, but also husband that flexibility to serve the needs of businesses,” M2M said. The company warned there's a “cottage industry of licensees getting away with disregard for the current rule’s limitation by making inadequate disclosures or simply by pretending it does not exist.” The rule change would recognize how many companies really use the B/ILT channels, M2M said. “Many 900 MHz B/ILT licensees appear to provide for-profit service to third parties from the start despite never requesting authority to do so in an assignment or modification application and never requesting a waiver.” M2M said its parent Spectrum Networks Group identified 19 licensees that “do not appear to use, or intend to use, their B/ILT licenses for private internal communications.”