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.

  • White Space Database "Worked!" And that means ...

    September 21, 2021

    The FCC’s Office of Engineering Technology recently announced that the testing of the first TV White Spaces database demonstrated that the database “worked.” Ok, a couple definitions of “worked” include that a certain activity performed a function as intended or operated as expected.

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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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  • 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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  • Revisit Sprint-Vacated Access Policy

    September 21, 2021

    Isn’t it time to review the three-year public safety priority access to Sprint-vacated 800 MHz spectrum, followed by yet another two-year priority access period that adds CII entities to the mix? It has been more than twelve long years since this spectrum segregation policy was first adopted, and its basis, 800 MHz rebanding, is now virtually complete.

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  • Industry Views Revealed: 800 MHz System Coverage/Capacity Expansion Potential

    September 21, 2021

    In August, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes an opportunity for Business/Industrial Land Transportation (B/ILT) and public safety incumbent 800 MHz licensees to have priority access for a limited time period to 800 MHz Expansion Band (EB) B/ILT channels – or at least whatever EB B/ILT channels are still a

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  • Beyond Belief …

    September 21, 2021

    I read with amazement, in the October 2016 issue of MissionCritical Communications, the announcement that Potomac Spectrum Partners (PSP) was planning to roll out a nationwide TETRA-based public safety network using Space Data’s 900 MHz spectrum and balloon communications technology.

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  • Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

    September 21, 2021

    I try to avoid responding in a serious manner to those who want you to believe that they can barely control their emotions over the potential injustices that would be perpetrated against unknowing licensees if they were not there to issue a call to arms and personally defend the masses.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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