Utility Asks for Tweak to Proposed 900 MHz Rules
Xcel Energy supports the FCC’s approach to reallocating the 900 MHz band, which will allow for broadband (see 2005010038), but sought a tweak on coverage benchmarks that takes into account that the most likely users will be utilities. “Clarify and…
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confirm … that in determining whether the relevant coverage benchmarks have been met, the ‘license area’ to be covered will exclude those areas where use of the broadband segment is precluded, such as by the requirement to protect incumbent operations within the county and/or within 70 miles of the county border,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 17-200.