Federated Gets Emergency CBRS Waiver for Puerto Rico
The FCC Wireless Bureau conditionally approved a Federated Wireless request for an emergency waiver of citizens broadband radio service rules to relieve the company of the requirement for environmental sensing capabilities to detect and protect federal incumbent users in the…
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band from harmful interference in dynamic protection areas in Puerto Rico, hit by Hurricane Fiona. The waiver applies only to periods when the ESC sensors are unable to communicate with Federated’s spectrum access system “due to a power outage or backhaul outage,” said an order in Friday’s Daily Digest. It's limited to “the earlier” of Oct. 6 “or when commercial power and backhaul service is restored to the subject ESC sensors.