Safer Buildings Coalition: Support Is Unanimous for New Booster Rules
The Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC) said Thursday that the record shows unanimous support for its July petition asking the FCC to launch a rulemaking on guidelines for getting consent from licensees to install signal boosters (see 2511130025).
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Of more than 70 comments filed, “every commenter that addressed the threshold question acknowledged that improperly deployed signal boosters cause harmful interference to public safety radio communications,” SBC said in a filing in RM-12009. The comments “reflect a breadth and depth of stakeholder engagement that underscores both the significance of the issues raised and the readiness of the regulated community to work collaboratively with the Commission toward solutions.”
SBC is right that “improperly deployed signal boosters … cause pervasive interference to other public safety radio communications,” the Enterprise Wireless Alliance said in its own filing Thursday, also noting unanimous support for the petition. “This has been confirmed by multiple organizations” representing public safety licensees, the licensees themselves, companies that install and maintain public safety systems, specialists in emergency responder communications enhancement systems, and vendors of public safety systems and signal booster equipment.