EWA Defends Stance Opposing NextNav Plan
The Enterprise Wireless Alliance disputed NextNav's arguments about the company’s proposal for reconfiguring the 900 MHz band. NextNav's Oct. 31 filing addressed concerns that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and EWA raised (see 2409090015). “NextNav states that EWA’s concerns about…
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interference are ‘misplaced’ because ‘EWA appears to envision two separate network deployments -- one for 5G and another for next-generation geolocation,’” EWA said in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 24-240: “That is not and never has been EWA’s understanding. Its Comments made clear EWA’s understanding that there would be a single network.” EWA added it’s “the impact of that prospective commercial broadband network that will host NextNav’s proposed [terrestrial positioning, navigation and timing] operation that is of significant concern to EWA.”