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Wireless technology company Federated Wireless urged the creation...

Wireless technology company Federated Wireless urged the creation of a Federal Spectrum Access System (FSAS) as part of any spectrum model city, in comments filed at the FCC. In July, NTIA and the FCC sought comment on a public-private partnership…

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to create a spectrum test city (CD July 14 p15), a recommendation of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in its July 2012 spectrum sharing report. The comments (http://bit.ly/1tMXIS2), posted Monday, were the first in the docket created by the FCC on the issue -- 14-99. “The envisioned commercial FSAS will protect sensitive system information while providing a simple automated method to authorize and manage spectrum experiments, including commercial experimental devices,” Federated said. An FSAS “would greatly streamline and simplify the creation and execution of Model City experiments.”