FCC Won't Lift 900 MHz Freeze for Kansas City Utility
The FCC Wireless Bureau denied a waiver request by Kansas City Power & Light to use 900 MHz licenses it controls for fixed supervisory control and data acquisition. The FCC has a freeze since last year on new or expanded…
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use of 900 MHz band frequencies (see 1809130064). KCPL says a new system “will improve the company’s ability to avoid and identify outages and other problems, improve the public’s safety, and increase the efficiency of KCPL’s operation” the bureau said Thursday: “It would not be in the public interest to authorize a new 900 MHz fixed system on a significant number of channels in a major metropolitan area while the Commission considers proposed rule changes to realign this land mobile band to support the provision of broadband” (see 1909120042).