FCC and NTIA jointly propose in this proceeding  to establish, via a public/private partnership, a "model city" (i.e. an urban environment) that is considered a test bed for spectrum sharing and technology development and initial rollout and evaluation. The original idea came from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in 2012.

 

These comments were prepared initially by Brennan Price and reviewed by me when I first saw them yesterday afternoon. The basic premise of our comments is that there can't be a model city for technological development and spectrum sharing without integrating Amateur Radio in it. There is also an important segment at the end about the inherent inequity and failure of the concept of a Model City for technological rollout and testing if some of the services in the model city are saddled with public,private or environmental antenna regulations which preclude the creation of a realistic environment.

 

The  EC has directed that we monitor this proceeding because, absent our meaningful participation in Model City technological investigation, we could be very much out in the cold. Today is the comment date so we will know soon what others have said. There is not a reply comment period permitted by the public notice, but we can get in some rebuttal if we need to do so.

 

This was prepared at the very last minute for various reasons so thanks to the Executive Committee for a quick review and turnaround on this and for their patience. We will try to prevent a recurrence of the timing of this. 

 

Let me or Brennan know any questions you have about this filing.

 

73, Chris W3KD