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The Register reports: Three ISPs will be fined $25,000 apiece by America’s broadband watchdog, the FCC, for interfering with weather signals in Puerto Rico.
Boom Solutions, Integra Wireless, and WinPR were all found to be using devices for their point-to-point broadband that were “misconfigured,” according to the regulator this week. This caused interference with a doppler weather radar station at San Juan international airport.
The weather station is used to detect potentially dangerous weather patterns, such as wind shear, and so any interference is “potentially life threatening,” the FCC noted.
It’s good to see the FCC finally come to Puerto Rico’s defense after its extraordinary failure to help the island after it was devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017. That failure saw the agency heavily criticized by the General Accountability Office (GAO) and its own commissioner, Jessica Rosenworcel.
Read The Register’s full story:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/24/fcc_spectrum_fines/
Our thanks to Stephen, G7VFY for spotting this item
