Regardless of what Chairman Pai said a few weeks ago, the published agenda for the Commission’s September 2019 does NOT contain any item related to revising RF safety standards. Stay tuned.
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FCC Chair: Local Govs are Small Cell Problem On August 28, 2019, FCC Chairman Pai spoke at the University of Mississippi Tech Summit, including about small cell installations. Not so buried within his prepared comments was a window into the Chairman’s approach to perpetuating his role as chief wireless industry cheerleader, rather than the chief . . . → Read More: Ajit Pai: Loc Govs Delay Small Cell Sites On Friday, April 12, President Trump held a press event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. His subject? 5G deployment. He remarks bear some close examination, as they come right out of the wireless industry playbook as enhanced by the FCC, a captured agency of that industry. Let’s take apart the remarks, which . . . → Read More: President Trump: Drinking the Industry 5G Kool Aid 
Mr. Jason Caliento, the Executive Vice President of Network Strategy at Mobilitie, presented the keynote address and a follow-up discussion at the AGL Summit on September 27, 2018. That Summit was held in Kansas City as an ongoing part of AGL’s (very important for municipal officials and industry personnel alike) lecture series. I spoke at . . . → Read More: Mobilitie: Fake News; FCC Fines; and Churchill’s Barking Dog. 
Today, San José Mayor Sam Liccardo resigned from the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (“BDAC”). This comes as no surprise to most of us in the local government sector, yet we’re sorry to see him leave. When FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced just one year ago his intention to form the BDAC as a vehicle . . . → Read More: Mayor Sam Liccardo Resigns from FCCs Sham BDAC 
I guess Sprint really, really likes my cell site photo collection, and photos I use in my lectures. So much, in fact, that they they included one of my annotated photos of a Mobilitie ‘pox-on-a-pole’ site in Los Angeles as a presentation tool in an Ex Parte meeting with 9 staff members at the FCC . . . → Read More: Sprint Uses My Photo of Mobilitie to Promote Small Cells 
I must be a really bad person (well, perhaps to some wireless infrastructure companies…ahem). First, the IRS was after me, now it’s the FBI. Oh my…oh my…oh my! http://wireless.blog.law/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fbi.MSG02164.wav Oddly, when I called back and told the “agent” I was recording the call all I heard was <click>! How rude of them to hang up . . . → Read More: First the IRS was after me…now it’s the FBI! Published reports late today have Sprint putting aside its merger talks with T-Mobile to focus on a potentially MUCH MORE IMPORTANT deal–one with Charter and Comcast (or is it Comcast and Charter). I’ve predicted a deal like this for years. Why is a Sprint-MSOs deal more important than a deal with T-Mobile? As I’ve said . . . → Read More: SprintCasTrum? Today’s San Francisco Chronicle features an interesting story about the tension between LPTV broadcasters and TV translator operators verus an FCC push to clear some TV channels for a new national WiFi-type of service. On one side are the NAB, LPTV braocasters, and TV translators. On the other side are an odd alliance of Microsoft . . . → Read More: LPTV/Translators/NAB v. FCC/Microsoft/Google The first lawsuit against the FCC challenging the constitutionality of Section 6409(a) has been filed in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Montgomery County is suing the FCC. Let the litigation begin. You can right click on the link below to download the entire compliant, but you can pretty much stop reading after the second . . . → Read More: 6409(a): Montgomery County v. FCC |
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