I submitted like 5 of them on 4/13, all still pending. We have installed a
few more subs since then, I have not bothered submitting them since I'm
unclear if the FCC even wants us to continue doing that or will ever process
the applications.
As far as the flood of applications in the week before April 17, there are 2
explanations:
1) Catching up on paperwork for sites that were already installed and
operational. (Because, of course, everyone waits for the application to be
approved before installing the customer.)
2) A land grab to grandfather fictitious sites, many of which won't even be
built out within a year.
I think it was a lot of #1 and a little bit of #2. The FCC thinks it was
all #2. We can't really argue, that would require admitting that we went
ahead and installed the customer without waiting for the FCC lady to rubber
stamp the application. I mean Geez Louise, even the DMV gives you a
temporary license plate so you can drive your new car home from the dealer.
I think the reason the Empire made the fully operational Death Star look
half finished, was they were still waiting for their FCC license to be
approved.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 10:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 3.65 registration
These were all submitted the week prior to April 17th. I heard there
were a lot of registrations that week.
On 5/15/2015 11:39 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Related question: do they even want us to register sites after April 17?
I read the R&O and I'm still unclear on that. I think Steve Coran's
summary on the WISPA list said something along the lines of operators MAY
continue to register locations after April 17, but they will not be
grandfathered once the SAS comes onboard. Does MAY mean you can if you
want to, but we no longer care? I think they make it pretty clear that
operators can continue adding subscribers to existing basestations, just
not clear if they still need to be registered on the now legacy NN
licenses. And totally unclear (at least to my feeble brain) if it is
legal to deploy new basestations, or for operators without a nationwide NN
license to deploy anything at all.
One interpretation would be that 3650-3700 is now effectively unlicensed
until the SAS comes onboard, at which point equipment registered by
4/17/15 and operational by 4/17/16 (actually a geographic area around said
equipment) will be grandfathered for X years to operate without SAS
functionality in 3650-3700 but not 3550-3650. Everything else must have
SAS functionality and get frequency assignments dynamically.
Another interpretation would be if you didn't register your equipment by
the deadline, you must now stand down until the SAS are available.
Effectively putting the band in a holding pattern waiting for the SAS.
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 10:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AFMUG] 3.65 registration
I have a bunch of pending 3.65ghz site registrations.
What's the best way to find out what the hold up is?
