Crosby's Blog

In his blog, EWA Chief Strategy Officer Mark Crosby addressed topics of concern to the land mobile radio industry. Unleashed and unvarnished, Mark takes on speculators, exposes the practices of those who prey upon unknowing licensees, and comments on spectrum policy at large.

  • LightSquared Gambling in Las Vegas with GPS Spectrum

    September 21, 2021

    Let’s hope that pilots have visual contact with the ground around a 175 nautical mile radius from Las Vegas from May 16 – 27. It seems that with the FCC’s blessing, LightSquared will be conducting tests of its terrestrial broadband service within this area at that time.

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  • Little ole me

    September 21, 2021

    I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I received a bit of static from LightSquared as a result of my last post about possible air navigation issues announced by the FAA around Las Vegas while tests were being conducted to measure the potential for interference to GPS functions.

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  • TETRA Association Comes Out Swinging

    September 21, 2021

    It’s a simple ask …

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  • Bad Sylvester, Bad

    September 21, 2021

    We have been watching with much interest for several years now the ongoing effort to minimize avian (bird) mortalities that result from those unfortunate instances when migrating birds happens to misjudge and, er, fly into a communications tower or guy wires.

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  • Refreshing...

    September 21, 2021

    If AT&T didn’t see it coming, I don’t believe that the FCC saw it coming either. That is, the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) antitrust suit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger that was filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court. Obviously, this is Washington, D.C., and the stakes are huge on a number of fronts, so it isn’t over until it’s over.

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  • That's a reach!

    September 21, 2021

    The FCC released a News Release earlier today announcing the 45-day public testing of the “First Television White Spaces Database.” This is important news as one of the more critical requirements that must be accommodated before white space devices are certified to roam free within TV and land mobile spectrum is that they know to recognize the “do not enter” signs where incumbent TV, legal wire

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  • Crosby to FCC - They’re All Consumer Issues!

    September 21, 2021

    For the record, if I were to drink Kool-Aid, I would prefer orange.

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  • Missing the Boat?

    September 21, 2021

    EWA will be filing Reply Comments on June 11 in the EB/GB 800 MHz proceeding in which the LMCC has asked the FCC to provide a six-month period for incumbents in a market to request those channels prior to accepting applications from new entrants.  Virtually all of the Comments in opposition were filed by individuals and organizations that selected their positions from a Chinese-restaurant like

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  • We Want Yours and Ours

    September 21, 2021

    EWA has for the third time (letter to the FCC)responded to the continued efforts of Weld County, Colorado, who is being egged on by APCO, to secure FCC approval to use 800 MHz Industrial/Business (I/B) channels in lieu of using available Sprint-vacated channels that are actual

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  • Not for the Faint of Heart

    September 21, 2021

    The last time I broached the subject of the pain and suffering that one must endure to secure approval from Industry Canada (IC) as a precondition to receive a 150-470 MHz license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—whether Industrial/Business (I/B) or Public Safety (PS)—the few friends I had in Canada at the time called me saying that I was out of line.

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