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.

September 21, 2021
We get it. The Pai Commission does not like determining spectrum policy through waivers. So, it comes as no surprise to the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) when we attempt to accom-modate business enterprise spectrum needs by accessing channels that have remained unassigned for years or decades through waiver requests, that our efforts are...
September 21, 2021
Before we get to this week’s news highlights (in EWA's member newsletter The Insider), I’m compelled to comment in response to the FCC’s back-to-back denials of waiver requests (see related stories below) from business enterprises that sought permission to use spectrum capacity that, while admittedly assigned for eligible classes of users other...
September 21, 2021
Washington County, Oregon, with a population of 563,000, is currently licensed for over seventy (!) 800 MHz channels, but apparently the seventy plus channels provide insufficient spectrum capacity despite advances in system design and the application of digital technologies. Stating that its system is at full capacity and that it has completely...
September 21, 2021
For the record, while Federal Licensing, Inc. may have a “Renewal/Modification Division,” the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not. We repeat – the FCC does not have a “Renewal/Modification Division.” We bring this to our member’s attention as another in a series of Federal Licensing, Inc. campaigns to secure monies from unsuspecting...
September 21, 2021
Many suspecting licensees, along with their wireless service providers, are contacting EWA asking “are these guys for real” after receiving misleading communications from “Federal Licensing, Inc. Publication Division” stating that all licensees “of the Private Land Mobile radio service to maintain a current copy of the FCC Rules and Regulations...
September 21, 2021
This past week, FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly asked whether certain information collection mandates by the FCC are “truly justified,” noting that certain rules stay in place past any useful purpose, while the burden can accumulate unnoticed for segments of the industry.  What an incredible observation and call for action, which has EWA’s total...
September 21, 2021
EWA took a pass on this one back in 2015 when the North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NC State) filed for a waiver of the 800 MHz inter-category sharing freeze to access a B/ILT channel in order to accommodate capacity shortfall issues at its Hibriten Mountain site. At the time, the waiver request was supported by the APCO which asserted that no...
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...
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...
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 actually reserved for public safety use for the next five years. If they are...

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