FCC Form 442 Question 7 Experimental Description

0212-EX-PL-2000 Text Documents

Adicom Wireless, Inc.

2000-09-25ELS_41900

Adicom Wireless, Inc. Exhibit in Response to Question #7 FCC Form 442 Application for New Radio Station Under Part 5 of the Experimental Radio Service Exhibit A Adicom Wireless Inc. manufactures fixed wireless equipment in various bands. Adicom has been in discussion with Dubois Telephone Company (DTC) to replace DTC’s Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service (BETRS) equipment with Adicom equipment operating at 1905-1910 MHz (the PCS C Block). Adicom’s equipment has not yet received equipment authorization from the FCC. The company expects to apply for certification in accordance with section 2.1033 of the rules within the next month. During this interim period, Adicom and DTC wish to conduct equipment evaluation and customer acceptability testing using the Adicom equipment. Dubois Telephone Company, located in Dubois, Wyoming, provides telephone and Internet connectivity services to the local community. The area served by DTC is very hilly. DTC has often found it difficult if not impossible to bury wires for the provision of landline telecommunications services. Therefore, DTC has been providing service to 50 of its customers using a BETRS system supplied by Interdigital Corp., which is a wireless voice and fax system. Interdigital has stopped producing the BETRS system and spare parts. DTC is currently left with no spares and in case of any equipment failure its BETRS customers will have no basic telephone service. Adicom and DTL wish to conduct evaluation of the Adicom equipment for the purposes of determining product performance and customer acceptability. Due to the difficult terrain of the DTL territory and the untested nature of fixed operations in the PCS band, DTL and Adicom have determined that compliance testing would be best conducted at the customer’s location so that it can be readily determined that fixed operation is a suitable replacement for DTL’s aging BETRS network. Testing the equipment at the customer’s site will also permit DTC to rapidly switch over to the Adicom network should the BETRS system fail once the Adicom equipment has been certified by the Commission. DTC’s affiliate, SpectraCom Inc., is the license holder for the C Block spectrum covering Dubois, Wyoming (BTA #375) SpectraCom has consented for Adicom to use up to10 MHz of its license for this compliance testing. Normally, an equipment manufacturer would conduct this on-site testing in accordance with section 2.803(e)(1)(v) of the FCC rules. This testing does not require the grant of an STA or experimental license (See section 2.803(e)(3)(ii)). However, Adicom’s proposed equipment does not strictly comply with the technical requirements of Part 24 of the FCC rules. While the company is confident that the Commission will ultimately grant it permanent equipment certification, section 2.803(g) of the Commission’s rules clearly requires Adicom to seek an experimental license during this interim period for equipment that cannot strictly comply with the current rules.


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