FCC Wireless Bureau is seeking comments on petition by Progeny LM...
FCC Wireless Bureau is seeking comments on petition by Progeny LMS requesting Commission to provide flexibility to licensees in Location & Monitoring Service (LMS) band and to alter certain restrictions at 902-928 MHz. Progeny asked that FCC consider eliminating…
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or doing away with: (1) LMS spectrum cap to let single licensee hold all LMS licenses in given economic area. (2) Restriction on real-time interconnection with public switched telephone network. (3) Restriction on types of communications or services that LMS operators can offer. (4) Safe harbor provision that contains presumption of noninterference for secondary users of band. Comments are due May 10, replies May 28. Progeny won LMS licenses in 1999 FCC auction and has asked agency to relax restrictions on type and content of messages and spectrum aggregation. It urged agency to apply to LMS band “its market-oriented policy of allowing licensees flexibility to offer whatever services the market can support and demand, so long as those operations do not hinder or interfere with the operations of primary users in the band.”