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Group Opposes Giving FirstNet Control of 4.9 GHz Band

Various groups supported arguments by the Coalition for Emergency Response and Critical Infrastructure (CERCI), which opposed the Public Safety Spectrum Alliance's (PSSA) move giving FirstNet effective control of the 4.9 GHz band (see 2405100061). The groups “fully endorse the legal…

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analyses supporting both the CERCI April 15 Letter and the more recent CERCI filing explaining why the PSSA’s suggestion that the FCC is free to do indirectly what it cannot do directly is equally legally infirm,” the filing said: Not considering the CERCI arguments would “risk embroiling the 4.9 GHz band in an ongoing legal dispute, thereby perpetuating the underutilization of this spectrum that prompted the FCC to initiate this proceeding.” Posted Tuesday in docket 07-100, the filing was signed by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the American Petroleum Institute, the Enterprise Wireless Alliance, the Forestry Conservation Communications Association, the International Municipal Signal Association, the National Sheriffs’ Association and the Utilities Technology Council.