EWA Seeks Modification of Industrial Business Coordination Rules
The Enterprise Wireless Alliance petitioned the FCC for a rulemaking to modify its rules, which currently require industrial business (IB) frequency coordinators to secure concurrence on primary use VHF/UHF channels. “The proposed changes would eliminate what have become unnecessary economic…
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and administratively burdensome requirements for frequency coordinators to secure concurrence on the frequencies specified,” the petition said. More than 20 years ago, the FCC consolidated the land mobile radio services into the IB and public safety “retaining concurrence requirements for certain primary user channels,” said EWA President Robin Cohen: “The VHF/UHF bands have come a long way over the past few decades with more enhanced coordination processes, the introduction of trunked technologies, and the availability of exclusive use channels. The reservation may have made sense 25 years ago but makes little sense in today’s private land mobile spectrum environment.”