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| | EETimes.com - FreeSpace sues FCC over guardband decision |
 | | FreeSpace (Santa Clara, Calif.), a startup working on wireless broadband technologies, planned to use guardbands in the 700-MHz window of the UHF spectrum for new wireless Internet access services. |
 | | In a suit filed Tuesday (April 18) in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, FreeSpace asked the court to overturn portions of a March 9 FCC ruling that restricted use of the 6-MHz guardbands surrounding the primary frequency windows that the FCC will auction. |
 | | FreeSpace's original proposal won the support of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Yahoo Inc., AT&T Co., L.M. Ericsson, and Excite@Home Inc. A CTIA spokesman called the FCC ruling "puzzling," since the commission had indicated it was skeptical of private-radio industry claims of interference in these guardbands. |
| www.eetimes.com /story/OEG20000418S0040 (375 words) |
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