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October 1, 2014
Volume 8, Issue 14
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Have Licensing Questions? Secure Answers at the "Licensing and Spectrum Essentials Workshop"
EWA will be holding its Licensing and Spectrum Essentials Workshop on Friday, October 10, from 8 a.m.-11:00am, at the Westin Downtown Denver during the 2014 Wireless Leadership Summit. This highly interactive and popular workshop, which has been presented across the U.S., is free to registered Summit participants, but space is limited. Register for the Summit and the Workshop at this link. EWA spectrum experts will address:
- How to obtain and manage your two-way radio call sign(s) from the FCC
- The most common errors made on license applications
- Which FCC rules are most critical for analog or digital systems
- Which spectrum is optimum for certain uses
- Interference mitigation
- Post-narrowbanding
- Securing FB8 exclusive channels
- Licensing digital radios
- Using EWA on-line frequency coordination tools, and more.
The workshop is appropriate for new employees and those with frequency coordination, licensing and spectrum management knowledge. Bring your questions for the pros and learn how to effectively navigate the spectrum landscape.
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EWA's Cevo™ ... Our Spectrum Toolbox is Now Yours
The Coordination Evolution began this spring with the Cevo™ mobile app, the first to enable anytime, anywhere frequency searches. We didn’t stop there! The full desktop version of Cevo will be unveiled at the 2014 Wireless Leadership Summit in Denver Colorado, October 8-10. We put you in control of the full EWA toolbox, and Cevo will allow you to not only conduct frequency searches and get immediate and accurate results with the reliability of EWA across multiple digital devices, but it will also allow you to do these more complex tasks:
- Conduct spectrum research
- Analyze channel possibilities
- Seek exclusive channels
- Review frequency coordination results
- Submit applications
- Verify status of business/industrial and public safety land mobile radio frequency applications to the FCC.
Cevo gives you the full power of EWA on any platform – smartphone, tablet, and desktop. We will be doing multiple demonstrations during the Summit. Visit EWA at the Wireless Leadership Summit to learn more about “Licensing and Spectrum Essentials” and the Cevo demo, or view the program for more details.
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Personal Use of Signal Boosers - No Sharing!
On September 23, the FCC adopted an Order on Reconsideration granting requests to streamline the testing procedures for Wideband Consumer Signal Boosters. At the same time the Commission released a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asking whether it is necessary to retain the “personal use” only restriction for Provider-Specific Consumer Signal Boosters. The current limitation essentially is supposed to prohibit individuals who install such a device for example in an office, even with the carrier’s consent, from allowing other employees who also are subscribers with the same carrier to use the device for their personal business communications. More |
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Forfeiture Notice? Likely Not if Public Safety!
The City of McDonough, Georgia continued operating a multiple address system on an expired license. Then the city filed a request for a new license for the same system without mentioning that it was to replace an expired authorization. Eventually, it amended its application to acknowledge that the application was for an operational system that needed a waiver to conduct one-way, rather than two-way, operations on the channel. More |
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Where to File a Narrowband Complaint
Although the March 4 Public Notice regarding post-NB license renewal procedures recommended filing complaints through the fcc.gov/complaints website, it appears that the drop down menu for the site includes no option for anything remotely close to reporting a license that continues to be authorized for or continues to operate an unauthorized wideband emission in the 150-470 MHz bands. More |
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LoJack Units Receive Waiver Extension
Holding the line on indefinite waivers of its narrowband requirements, the FCC granted an extension until December 31, 2024 for LoJack units already being used. LoJack is designed to help locate and recover stolen vehicles. It didn’t hurt that the request from the International Association of Auto Theft Investigators received support from numerous police departments around the county. The only party that objected to indefinite relief was NTIA since the spectrum at issue is allocated primarily for Federal use. FCC Order |
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Nixon was President at the Time!
The Public Safety and Homeland Bureau (PSHSB) denied a waiver request from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Authority asking that its secondary status on two VHF frequencies be converted to primary. The Authority explained that it has been operating FB2 stations on these mobile frequencies as part of a statewide conventional system with 25 repeaters and 3000 mobiles for 40 years and apparently only recently became aware that the base station use was secondary when the FCC recently added a condition to some licenses. More |
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FCC Reduces Regulatory Fees
Effective September 15, 2014, the FCC has reduced its regulatory fees as follows:
470 MHz and above
- Regulatory fee decreased from $400 to $350
- Application fee, no change at $65
- Total filing fees now decreased to $460
Below 470 MHz
- Regulatory fee decreased from $150 to $100
- Application fee, no change at $65
- Total filing fees now increase to $165
Please direct any questions to EWA Customer Service, 800-842-8282 or Customer.Service@enterprisewireless.org.
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Why is this so difficult?
Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co LLC, operating on 154.4825 MHz in Monroe, Georgia was issued a Notice of Violation for operating a repeater station (FB2), when their license was only authorized for use as a Mobile (MO) operation. Transcontinental was also found operating with a digital emission and could be fined $7,000 for the interference, $4,000 for using an unauthorized frequency and an additional $4,000 and for unauthorized emissions. They have twenty days to provide the Commission a mea culpa and a plan for corrective measures. |
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Register Online by October 3 for the 2014 Wireless Leadership Summit
The deadline for online registration for the 2014 Wireless Leadership Summit is October 3. Don’t delay. Register today and don’t miss the opportunity to invest in your business, network with fellow professionals and visit with over 40 of the industry's leading vendors in an exhibit hall.
Program Overview:
- Fall meetings for the EDMSS, GLMSS, SEMSS and WMSP organizations
- Annual USMSS and EWA member meetings
- Motorola Solutions Service Partner Program
- Exhibit hall with over 40 industry leading vendors
- Networking events
- Sessions on procuring digital radios, steps to take to avoid FCC enforcement action, software tools for dealers
- Catch a demo of Cevo™, the new online licensing system from EWA that puts you in control. Fast, easy coordination results. Anytime, anywhere!
- Licensing and Spectrum Essentials workshop by EWA
View the full schedule of events here. For general information and to register, visit the event page.
While the Westin HQ hotel room block is sold out, we understand there are hotels in the downtown Denver area with room availability. If you have questions about hotels, please contact Elaine Walsh, Conference Director at elaine.walsh@enterprisewireless.org or 520.620.0063.
Register Today!
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Emergency Vehicle Specialists - Hollister, CA
Janus Spectrum, LLC - Scottsdale, AZ
Moseley Associates, Inc - Goleta, CA
Northern Spectrum Advisors - Rosemont, IL
Rock Communications, LLC - Fort Mill, SC
Spectrum Holding Company - Wanatah, IN
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