April 13, 2023
Andrea Cumpston
Herndon, VA, April 12, 2023 — During its 2023 Annual Membership Meeting on April 11, the membership of the National Wireless Communications Council (NWCC) elected the following as officers and members of its Board of Directors for its 20223 – 2024 fiscal year: Officers President – Richard Rubino (The Monitoring Association) Vice President – Farokh Latif (Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International) Secretary/Treasurer – Mark Crosby (Enterprise Wireless Alliance)…
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June 22, 2022
Andrea Cumpston
The National Wireless Communications Council (NWCC) has supported the Joint Petition for Rulemaking and Request for Stay filed by representatives of public safety and utility licensees in the 6 GHz band, including APCO International and the Edison Electric Institute. In an ex parte filed June 21, 2022, NWCC agreed with the request for new rules for 6 GHz low-power indoor (LPI) devices, further testing of standard-power devices, and an immediate…
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May 11, 2022
Andrea Cumpston
In a letter filed May 10, 2022, the National Wireless Communications Council (NWCC) responded to a suggestion from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) take no further action on NWCC’s Petition for Rulemaking for fear of increasing the potential for interference in 470-512 MHz (T-Band), which is shared by television broadcasters and land mobile radio systems in certain markets in the United States. The…
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April 15, 2022
Andrea Cumpston
During its 2022 Annual Membership Meeting, which convened on Thursday, April 14, the membership of the National Wireless Communications Council (NWCC) elected the following as members of its Board of Directors for its 2022 – 2023 fiscal year: Officers President – David Smith (Forest Industries Telecommunications) Vice President – Chief Doug Aiken (International Association of Fire Chiefs) Secretary/Treasurer – Mark Crosby (Enterprise Wireless Alliance) At-Large Members of the Board of…
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March 2, 2022
Andrea Cumpston
The National Wireless Communications Council (NWCC, formerly the Land Mobile Communications Council), again urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would update the rules governing the analytical protocols used to determine the potential for interference between land mobile licensees and digital television stations operating in the T-Band (470-512 MHz). NWCC also responded to Reply Comments filed by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)…
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January 27, 2022
Andrea Cumpston
After fifty years, the membership of the Land Mobile Communications Council unanimously agreed to change the organization’s name to the “National Wireless Communications Council” (NWCC) to better reflect the association’s purpose and advocacy initiatives conducted on behalf of its membership and member constituencies. The LMCC played an active role in FCC Docket Nos. 18261 and 18262 in the early 1970s that led to the sharing of broadcast spectrum, today known…
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January 12, 2022
Andrea Cumpston
In a letter filed January 11, the Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) reminded the Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that requests to relocate low-power television (LPTV) stations should comply with FCC rules that protect Part 90 incumbent wireless systems. Recent interference issues involving broadcast and land mobile stations have made LMCC members wary of any proposed changes to LPTV channels and locations, and the LMCC trusts that…
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December 20, 2021
Andrea Cumpston
The Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) has sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Managing Director stating that users of the FCC Universal Licensing System (ULS) “continue to experience slow or non-existent service” and that the unreliability of the ULS impedes the ability of FCC-certified frequency coordinators to serve those that rely upon licensed spectrum in the United States. The LMCC urged the FCC to be more communicative…
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December 14, 2021
Andrea Cumpston
Today the Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) filed a request with the FCC seeking a 30-day extension from December 28, 2021, to January 27, 2022, of the Reply Comment deadline in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 4.9 GHz Eight Notice of Further Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM). The FNPRM asks interested parties to consider multiple approaches for promoting greater public safety use of the band and to comment on a variety of…
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December 10, 2021
Andrea Cumpston
In a letter filed December 10, 2021, the Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC) urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to extend until June 30, 2022, the filing window during which incumbents in 470-512 MHz (T-Band) may modify existing systems. In addition, the LMCC asked the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau to “confirm that there are no current plans to rescind the Public Notice suspending the…
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