EBS Interests Defend Push for Revisions to 2.5 GHz Rules
Educational broadband service advocates disagreed with the Wireless ISP Association and Wireless Communications Association that the FCC should reject a Nov. 25 petition by the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition and others seeking changes to rules for the 2.5…
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GHz band (see 2001030048). “Opponents fail to grapple with the fundamental problems in the EBS Order,” replied SHLB and others. “Like the EBS Order itself, they offer no response to Educational Petitioners’ argument that commercial carriers lack sufficient incentive to deploy 2.5 GHz spectrum to close the digital divide and homework gap. Instead, they parrot the Order’s flawed logic and unsupported findings to conclude that there is no longer any need -- or demand -- for EBS.” The Consortium for School Networking, State Educational Technology Directors Association, American Library Association, National Digital Inclusion Alliance, Nebraska Department of Education, Utah Education and Telehealth Network and Council of Chief State School Officers also signed the filing, posted Thursday in docket 18-120.