Energy Associations Ask FCC To Protect Operations in the 173 MHz Band
The American Petroleum Institute, Edison Electric Institute and the Utilities Telecom Council said the FCC shouldn't authorize the use of the six 173 MHz telemetry channels for Vehicular Repeater Systems, in a meeting with Public Safety Bureau staff. Utilities, pipeline…
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companies and other critical infrastructure industry companies use the frequencies “for mission critical communications to support applications such as supervisory control and data acquisition, distributed automation and early warning sirens at nuclear power plants and water dams,” the energy groups said, in an ex parte filing in docket 13-229. “Mobile voice is incompatible with telemetry equipment currently employed in the band.”