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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
ENFORCEMENT BUREAU
South Central Region
Houston Office
9597 Jones Road, #362
Houston, TX 77065
August 13, 2010
Via Certified Mail: 7009 3410 0000 1986 8732
NSN Wireless LP
Houston, Texas
NOTICE OF UNLICENSED OPERATION
Case Number: EB-10-HU-0050
Document Number: W201032540006
On June 17, 2010, while investigating interference to the Federal Aviation
Administration ("FAA") Terminal Doppler Weather Radar that serves the
George Bush Intercontinental Airport, agents from the Houston Office met
with several companies with radio transmitting equipment located on the
rooftop of the San Felipe Plaza at 5847 San Felipe Road in Houston, TX,
the source of the interfering signals. During an inspection of your
Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure ("U-NII) equipment, the
agents, accompanied by a NSN radio technician, observed that the dynamic
frequency selection ("DFS") functionality of your equipment was disabled
while operating on the frequencies 5.530 GHz and 5.540 GHz. The DFS
functionality was enabled by one of your technicians during the FCC's
inspection.
Radio stations must be licensed by the Federal Communications Commission
("FCC") pursuant to 47 U.S.C. S: 301. The only exception to this licensing
requirement is for certain transmitters using or operating at a power
level or mode of operation that complies with the standards established in
Part 15 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R. S:S: 15.1 et seq.
Nonlicensed operation pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC's rules, however, is
conditioned upon compliance with all applicable regulations in the
subpart, 47 C.F.R. S: 15.1(b). U-NII devices are required to have DFS
functionality enabled for any operation in the 5.25 GHz - 5.35 GHz and the
5.47 GHz - 5.725 GHz bands. See 47 C.F.R. S: 15.407(h)(2). Accordingly,
your operation on the frequencies 5.530 GHz and 5.540 GHz was not in
compliance with the requirements of Part 15 of the FCC's rules and should
therefore be licensed by the FCC. The FCC has no record of a license being
issued to you to operate a transmitter on 5.530 GHz or 5.540 GHz from this
location. Thus, your operation was in violation of 47 U.S.C. S: 301.
You are hereby warned that operation of radio transmitting equipment
without a valid radio station authorization constitutes a violation of
the Federal laws cited above and could subject the operator to severe
penalties, including, but not limited to, substantial monetary fines, in
rem arrest action against the offending radio equipment, and criminal
sanctions including imprisonment. (See 47 U.S.C. S:S: 401, 501, 503 and
510).
UNLICENSED OPERATION OF A U-NII DEVICE ON 5.530 GHz OR 5.540 GHz MUST NOT
RESUME. NONLICENSED OPERATION OF A PART 15 DEVICE MAY NOT RESUME UNLESS
YOU ARE IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH PART 15 OF THE FCC'S RULES.
You have ten (10) days from the date of this notice to respond concerning
your operation of these Part 15 devices. Please provide the makes and
models of the U-NII devices in use by you on the rooftop of the San Felipe
Plaza building rooftop on June 17, 2010. Your response should also
describe the steps you are taking to ensure that your operation does not
interfere with the TDWR that serves the George Bush Intercontinental
Airport, as well as any TDWR serving any other airport. Your response
should be sent to the address in the letterhead and reference the listed
case and document number. Under the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. S:
552a(e)(3), we are informing you that the FCC's staff will use all
relevant material information before it to determine what, if any,
enforcement action is required to ensure your compliance with FCC Rules.
This will include any information that you disclose in your reply.
Be advised that this warning does not preclude this office from pursuing
additional sanctions based upon our investigation of this incident.
You may contact this office if you have any questions.
Stephen P. Lee
Resident Agent
Houston Office
Attachments:
Excerpts from the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended