The 900 MHz band, a frequency range serving as a commons for all, is now at risk due to NextNav’s brazen attempt to privatize this shared resource.
Left by the FCC for use by amateur radio operators, unlicensed consumer devices, and industrial, scientific, and medical equipment, this spectrum has become a hotbed for new technologies and community-driven projects. Millions of consumer devices also rely on the range, including baby monitors, cordless phones, IoT devices, garage door openers. But NextNav would rather claim these frequencies, fence them off, and lease them out to mobile service providers. This is just another land-grab by a corporate rent-seeker dressed up as innovation.
EFF and hundreds of others have called on the FCC to decisively reject this proposal and protect the open spectrum as a commons that serves all.
Read more – Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://bit.ly/4ekGxUj
More Stories
via Amateur Radio Daily: RSGB Convention and AMSAT-UK Colloquium Livestream
Via AMSAT: ANS-287 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins
Amateur radio volunteers provide and maintain crucial communication links when hurricanes strike (Texas)