TLPS PN Must Be Clear FCC Controls Coexistence Testing, PK Says

Any public notice about Globalstar's proposed terrestrial low-power service should make clear the FCC has the final say on an acceptable TLPS/Wi-Fi coexistence testing process, Public Knowledge said in an ex parte filing Monday in docket 13-213. It recapped a meeting between PK Senior Vice President Harold Feld and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler adviser Edward Smith, at which PK said Feld had suggestions for any agency approval of TLPS, including making clear that if accommodation fails, the agency "must have clear processes by which it will adjudicate spectrum interference claims." The FCC also should say TLPS intrudes into spectrum allocated for public use and thus carries a bigger burden to benefit and protect public spectrum, PK said. The group said the FCC should move quickly on issuing a public notice on unlicensed use of the 5.9 GHz band, and include three key questions in it: (1) Should the FCC seek comment on whether to impose noncommercial conditions on the portion of the 5.9 GHz band used for life and safety operations or the entire 75 megahertz of it? (2) What value is there of allocating spectrum to dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) systems when automakers already have anticollision systems using unlicensed Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) systems and what level of DSRC inference protection would be harmful given that UWB systems will be the primary anticollision protection provider for autos in the foreseeable future? (3) What privacy and cybersecurity rules might be needed for DSRC?