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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>FCC permits medical devices in 2360-2400 MHz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The FCC has decided to allow Medical Body Area Networks (MBAN) to operate in the 2360-2400 MHz band.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The ARRL reports:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In a First Report and Order and a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ET 08-59) released on May 24, the FCC decided to expand the Part 95 Personal Radio Service rules to allow medical devices to operate on a secondary basis in the 2360-2400 MHz band. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>These devices -- called Medical Body Area Networks (MBAN) -- provide a way for health care facilities to monitor their patients via wireless networks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Because use of these frequencies will be on a secondary basis, MBAN stations will not be allowed to cause interference to -- and must accept interference from -- primary services, including radio amateurs who operate on a primary basis in the 2390-2395 MHz and 2395-2400 MHz bands.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ says "In the past, the FCC has declined the ARRL’s request to raise the status of the Amateur Service at 2300-2305 MHz to primary, even though there is no other service to which this segment of the band is allocated. This is now the only portion of the 2300-2450 MHz band -- which at one time was available in its entirety to amateurs -- that is not encumbered by other spectrum occupants."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Read the full ARRL story at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-expands-part-95-medradio-rules-to-allow-devices-in-2360-2400-mhz-band">http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-expands-part-95-medradio-rules-to-allow-devices-in-2360-2400-mhz-band</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>