Company Faces Fine for Interfering With FAA Radar in Puerto Rico
The Enforcement Bureau Monday proposed a fine of $20,000 against Caribbean Network Solutions for allegedly operating two U-NII devices in the 5.6 GHz band, against FCC rules, causing interference to an FAA doppler weather radar station in San Juan, Puerto…
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Rico. The fines comes following a visit to the site by bureau staff last September. Officials “observed that two Ubiquiti Rocket” devices “were operating on the same wireless network using a center frequency of 5.620 GHz,” the order said. “Bureau personnel also observed that the Ubiquiti Devices were configured to operate using the Argentina country code, rather than the United States country code, and that Dynamic Frequency Selection was not enabled.” The company didn’t comment. The bureau noted it could have been fined as much as $151,005 “for a single act or failure to act.”