WISPA, WCA Say FCC Shouldn't Revisit Revised 2.5 GHz Rules
The Wireless ISP Association and Wireless Communications Association said the FCC should reject a Nov. 25 petition by the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition and others seeking changes to rules for the 2.5 GHz band. Commissioners approved revised rules…
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for the educational broadband service band in July, with Democrats Jessica Rosenworcel and Geoffrey Starks dissenting (see 1907100054). The petition “fails to identify any material error, omission, or reason warranting reconsideration,” WISPA said in docket 18-120, posted Friday: “Petitioners’ efforts to maintain vestiges of the existing rules find little or no support in the record” and the use of the EBS never developed as expected. “The fundamental question at issue in the 2.5 GHz" order "is whether it makes sense in 2020 to maintain a restrictive licensing regime in the 2.5 GHz band that has resulted in 95 percent of the spectrum being leased from educators to commercial entities,” WCA said: “Today, commercial operators support nearly all of the deployments.”