San Francisco Transit Seeks Stay of 4.9 GHz Data Filing Requirement
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District petitioned the FCC to stay a requirement that 4.9 GHz licensees provide the agency with granular licensing data by June 9 or face cancellation of their licenses. BART said it's using the…
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band to build a communications-based train control system that will “enhance the safety of its transit operations.” Absent a stay, BART would have to devote “crucial and limited resources to a cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming data collection process, which must begin immediately to meet” the June 9 deadline, said a petition posted Wednesday in docket 07-100. The Government Wireless Technology & Communications Association and state groups previously asked the FCC to delay the requirement (see 2412230048). The National Sheriffs’ Association and California State Sheriffs’ Association also asked that the FCC stay the October order giving the FirstNet Authority -- and, indirectly, AT&T -- use of the 4.9 GHz band pending judicial review (see 2501230034).