I don’t know where you’re doing your licensing but I pay about $500 every 10 years for my license links.
I should have clarified - CA operator here. I expect Industry Canada fees differ quite a bit, but that's about our average for licensing in the upper bands. -----Original Message----- From: Matt Hoppes [mailto:mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 2:43 PM To: Emille Blanc Cc: Bradley Burch; Sean Donelan; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: FCC Takes Action Against WISPs That Interfered with FCC Weather Radar I don’t know where you’re doing your licensing but I pay about $500 every 10 years for my license links. And $25,000 is what you paid to use the link in legally possibly causing wanton endangerment to life, and then you have to stop using it.
On Aug 22, 2019, at 5:31 PM, Emille Blanc <emille@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@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Bradley Burch Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 2:09 PM To: Sean Donelan Cc: nanog@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@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-war...
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.
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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
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