Don't Treat Fixed and Mobile Broadband Mapping Data Equally, USTelecom, WISPA Urge FCC

Executives from USTelecom, the Wireless ISP Association and their members spoke with officials from the FCC Wireline and Wireless bureaus, Office of Economics and Analytics and Office of Engineering and Technology about their proposal for reporting fixed wireless propagation for digital opportunity data collection, said a filing posted Friday in docket 19-195. They said requirements for mobile wireless and fixed wireless can be similar but not identical because "designing and calibrating networks to serve discrete fixed locations presents different challenges than ensuring broad wireless coverage to mobile users."