NATE Urges Signal Booster Revisions
NATE supports the Safer Buildings Coalition’s July petition asking the FCC to launch a rulemaking on guidelines for getting consent from licensees to install signal boosters, said a filing Friday in docket RM-12009 (see 2511130025). The FCC’s regulatory framework for Part 90 industrial signal boosters “contains significant gaps that negatively impact both our contractor members and public safety communications,” NATE said. “The absence of clear, standardized authorization procedures creates an environment where requirements vary unpredictably across jurisdictions and license holders.”
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Gregory Glenn, a consultant and engineer, said many of the comments in the proceeding support rules but ignore the fact that signal boosters won’t by themselves solve more in-building coverage issues. “The mentality that seems to permeate many of the comments is that we can solve” coverage issues “simply by coordinating the use of boosters,” Glenn said in his filing. This mindset “goes against physics; it is unrealistic to even think that the use of over-the-air signal boosters … can be used in every building that does not have adequate radio coverage.”