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The debate over whether the FCC should forge ahead with its plans to create a 25-megahertz swath of spectrum, known as AWS-3, is still festering. Proponent M2Z Networks issued a press release today saying that the FCC's interference testing has confirmed that any proposed wireless broadband service in this spectrum would not cause interference with company's offering service on adjacent bands.
The FCC has said that this AWS-3 spectrum would support a nationwide license and the agency would require the licensee to dedicate 25 percent of its network capacity to free broadband service, install a network-based Internet filtering system to block pornography and allow open access to third-party devices and applications. M2Z Networks, of course, has been a proponent of this plan. And T-Mobile USA, which is deploying its UMTS service in the AWS spectrum, is a vocal opponent.
M2Z says that the recent testing conducted by the FCC in Seattle demonstrated that AWS-3 handsets could operate safely at the commission's standard power limit of +33 dBm. And that the testing validated previous tests which found that TDD and FDD could coexist using an out-of-band emission limit of 49+ 10 log (P).
Of course, the industry is still awaiting final word from the FCC regarding this testing. So far, it hasn't weighed in with any results leaving parties on both sides of the debate to make their own interpretations.
For more:
- see this press release
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M2Z asks FCC to reject more AWS-3 interference tests
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Comments
Posted by Russ | December 3, 2008 - 12:03am
It all depends on whose ox is being gored. Existing services will always do anything they can to prevent a competing service from being started. At the same time a new service when they want to expand their own services they don't care who they might interfere with in doing so. The interferance potential is always defined in a confusing bunch of technical jargon that few people can understand while the potential services to be offered is always defined on clear simple terms sans the jargon. Then pollitics always gets in the way, (republican/democrat) and nobody can be sure what is true and what is just a pipe dream.
There used to always be segments of the radio spectrum between assignments to keep interferance between the assignees to a minimum. Technology keeps marching on that would allow closer spacings to the radio frequency bands, but that would also in many cases require existing users to upgrade thweir equipment to allow compatibility with the new standards. This always means expenses required to allow for more users in the limited ammount of radio spectrum available. It goes on blah, blah, blah and blah and I don't give a damn as long as it doesn't happen in my own back yard so to speak. Then I will want to file a lawsuit and protest that my rights are being interfered with if any such new plan goes through that has a potential for interferance to my business. Bah Humbug!!!!
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