Companies interested in the Multilateration Location and Monitoring Service (M-LMS)...
Companies interested in the Multilateration Location and Monitoring Service (M-LMS) band asked the FCC to act with caution on a waiver request by Progeny. In March, Progeny filed a petition for waiver of Sections 90.155(e) and 90.353(g) of the commission’s…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
rules related to the band. Progeny said it hoped to satisfy build-out requirements by using a multilateration network configuration that it claims is “more technologically advanced.” “In my opinion, the waiver request is too vague to understand the effect that technology and systems under the proposed waived rules, versus the current rules, would have on unlicensed devices and systems of unlicensed devices operating in the 902-928 MHz band, as well as to determine the impact upon wireless Intelligent Transportation Systems using M-LMS spectrum operating under the current rules,” said Ben Wild, a wireless engineer writing on behalf of Skybridge Spectrum Foundation and Telesaurus Holdings. “The 902-928 MHz band has been a fertile proving ground for an enormous number of different types of products, ranging in nature from hugely successful consumer products like cordless telephones, baby monitors, wireless audio and video equipment, and home security systems, to medical implant products, to devices that have been integrated into critical infrastructure operations involved in the nation’s energy, transportation and utility industries,” said Cellnet Technology. “A waiver that potentially increases the likelihood of interference to Part 15 users would undermine this balance."