$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-boun...@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 <s...@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-warning-industry-0 > > 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. > > [...] > > 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 > > [...]
