WISPA Opposes Texas City's Request for CBRS Waiver
WISPA strongly opposed a November request by Brownsville, Texas, for an FCC waiver to operate a city network that uses the citizens broadband radio service band at higher power levels than allowed in agency rules (see 2511250015). NCTA has raised similar objections (see 2512020048).
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“By any measure, the substantial increase in power that Brownsville’s Waiver Petition seeks will create massive interference” to priority access license holders, general authorized access users “and, quite possibly, federal incumbents and Fixed Satellite Service incumbents,” WISPA said in a filing Tuesday. Brownsville makes little effort to address those “fundamental points,” and the waiver petition “fails to demonstrate ‘special circumstances’ and would materially harm existing and future users of the CBRS band.”