Changes to technical rules affect licensing, frequency coordination Those interested in the finer points of Private Land Mobile Radio (PLMR) and Wireless Medical Telemetry Service (WMTS) – you know who you are – should check out a recent FCC order addressing a grab-bag of Part 90 and Part 95 issues.�[WARNING: Don’t try reading the order if you’re driving, operating heavy equipment, or performing any task requiring alertness.]� Following up on a three-year-old proposal, the FCC has now: exempted from required frequency coordination certain categories of Part 90 applications that do not threaten new interference, such those requesting CMRS-to-PLMR conversion, bandwidth reduction, lowered antenna height, or decreased power (Section 90.175); removed channel restrictions and power limits for mobile repeaters below 450 MHz and power limits for handheld transmitters (Section 90.247); clarified that state and local governments (as well as businesses) are eligible to use Industrial/Business Pool licenses for commercial activities and surveying (Section 90.35); because the FCC no longer issues authorizations for systems with a station class of FB8T (temporary centralized trunked relay), clarified that stations currently classed as FB8T will be renewed as either FB2T (for private, internal systems) or FB6T (for for-profit private carriers) stations; and prohibited registration of WMTS...
Source: CommLawBlog
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