<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/nextnavs-callous-band-grab-privatize-900-mhz">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/nextnavs-callous-band-grab-privatize-900-mhz</a><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2.3rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Merriweather;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The 900 MHz band, a frequency range serving as a commons for all, is now at risk due to NextNav’s brazen attempt to privatize this shared resource. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2.3rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Merriweather;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Left by the FCC for use by amateur radio operators, unlicensed consumer devices, and industrial, scientific, and medical equipment, this spectrum has become a hotbed for new technologies and community-driven projects. Millions of consumer devices also rely on the range, including baby monitors, cordless phones, IoT devices, garage door openers. But NextNav would rather claim these frequencies, fence them off, and lease them out to mobile service providers. This is just another land-grab by a corporate rent-seeker dressed up as innovation. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 2.3rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Merriweather;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(proceedings.name:(%2224-240%22))&page=1&limit=100" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(75,106,136)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">EFF and hundreds of others</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> have called on the FCC to decisively reject this proposal and protect the open spectrum as a commons that serves all</span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>73,<div>K1CPR</div><div>Juan</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>