Wireless

摘要

The FCC granted Sprint a waiver of some of its interference rules, saying doing so will help spurrnLTE deployment in 56 Florida counties. But Sprint needs to keep at least an 80-mile co-channel betweenrnits activities in 821-824/866-869 MHz and any nearby operations in the NPSPAC band operated by Miami-rnDade County or Florida, the agency conditioned. Those two entities have yet to complete their 800rnMHz band reconfiguration, but Sprint had argued it can “integrate the old NPSPAC band spectrum into itsrnbroadband network in much of Florida without posing any risk of interference,” the letter explained.rnSprint must also warn Florida and Miami-Dade County at least 30 days before Sprint begins deployment,rnthe FCC said. “As Sprint argues, it would be inequitable and unduly burdensome to prohibit its subscribers’rnaccess to these valuable broadband wireless services until the final two public safety licensees completerntheir retuning from the old NPSPAC band, particularly where neither licensee objects to the plannedrndeployment,” the FCC said in a Monday letter signed by Wireless Bureau Mobility Division Chief RogerrnNoel (http://fcc.us/1cMYN3q). “Such a constraint on broadband deployment and consumer choice is contraryrnto the public interest in light of measures (i.e. co-channel separation and advance notification) thatrnwill protect public safety entities from harmful interference.”