RWA Members Having Problems Getting Noise Ratio Data
The Rural Wireless Association asked the FCC to request equipment manufacturers share their signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) information with smaller carriers, allowing them to comply with the agency’s broadband data collection requirements. Some equipment makers have to disclose the SINR information…
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but say it’s “highly confidential, even after executing Nondisclosure Agreements with the carriers and/or their engineering consultants,” RWA said, in a filing posted Thursday in docket 19-195: “At the same time, these equipment manufacturers have apparently disclosed this SINR information to the larger carriers.” RWA also noted some of its members have Huawei and ZTE gear in their networks and are unable to get the information from the two Chinese companies, which are exiting the U.S. market. RWA members also have concerns with the broadband service location fabric data, the group said. “According to filers, there [are] a lot of missing locations due to outdated and inaccurate addresses.”