Wireless Bureau Seeks Comment on AEP Waiver Request
The FCC Wireless Bureau is seeking comment by Dec. 21 on a request by American Electric Power for a waiver allowing it to operate 800 MHz low-power temporary repeaters and “talk-around on mobile units” in remote areas outside the range…
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of its existing 800 MHz network. Replies are due Jan. 5, in docket 23-390. A power provider in 11 states, AEP made the request in a June filing in the FCC’s Universal Licensing System. “Section 90.621(b) of the Commission’s rules governs the required separation distances for fixed stations operating on frequencies in the 806/851–824/869 MHz band, and its underlying purpose is to ensure licensees can maintain interference-free operations,” the bureau said: “In its waiver request, AEP detailed the steps it intends to take that will ensure its proposed operations on the requested frequencies will not cause interference to co-channel licensees.”