FCC Takes Action Against WISPs That Interfered with FCC Weather Radar

Thu Aug 22 23:22:05 UTC 2019

Good equipment uses GPS and manages frequency allowance accordingly. 
:)

> On Aug 22, 2019, at 5:31 PM, Emille Blanc <emille at abccommunications.com> wrote:
> 
> $25k seems like a cheap fine, really. Have you seen the price of spectrum these days?
> And links operating in a licensed spectrum tend to incur $1k per link per year in usage fees.
> 
>> Most gear now will hop frequencies automatically if they receive a DFS interference.
>> If your gear supports this, turn it on.
> 
> Said gear almost always has an option to ignore it too, thanks to different regulatory requirements.
> 
> North-American operator: Hey, you're actually in India, so don't do DFS on those channels!
> Radio equipment: 'Kay.
> 
> Queue argument for doing it right and having a link in a non-DFS susceptible channel to survive those many-minute long radar event triggered outages.
> And counter-argument for the increased costs, so what's the point in using cheap 5GHz radios and spectrum in the first place?
> Counter-counter-argument that 5GHz gear is so cheap! Such throughput! Wow!
> 
> I've seen and heard these stories before, and that's usually how it goes.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Bradley Burch
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 2:09 PM
> To: Sean Donelan
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: FCC Takes Action Against WISPs That Interfered with FCC Weather Radar
> 
> 
> Most gear now will hop frequencies automatically if they receive a DFS interference.
> 
> If your gear supports this, turn it on.
> Brad,
> 
>> On Aug 22, 2019, at 3:42 PM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I haven't been paying attention to the WISP market, so I'm not up to speed on these issues.
>> 
>> 
>> https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-fines-against-wisps-and-issues-warning-industry-0
>> 
>> The Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau today announced proposed fines and issued a formal industry warning related to devices that apparently caused interference to the Federal Aviation Administration’s terminal doppler weather radar station in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Enforcement Bureau proposed three separate $25,000 fines against wireless Internet service providers Boom Solutions, Integra Wireless, and WinPR.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> In addition to the proposed fines, the Bureau’s Enforcement Advisory warned operators, manufacturers, and marketers of Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure devices that these devices must be certified under FCC rules. Such devices that operate in the 5.25 GHz to 5.35 GHz and 5.47 GHz to 5.725 GHz bands risk interfering with radar systems if not properly configured to share the spectrum
>> 
>> [...]
> 