EBS License Management

The new FCC Educational Broadband Services (EBS) regulations became the law of the land on January 10, 2005. These new regulations impose significant new requirements on licensees of spectrum in the former ITFS bands which have traditionally been licensed to school districts and other educational institutions. Digital video, Internet and Learning Management System technologies can be utilized to make the EBS licenses particularly useful for providing innovative e-learning and other educational systems and services. The new regulations permit the use of EBS licenses for providing commercial services that can generation additional revenue for school district licensees.

Edgenics provides consulting services to assist school districts in addressing the detailed requirements for maintaining existing licenses, transitioning to the new band plan, utilization requirements, sub-licensing guidelines and other considerations that incumbent licensees need to know in order to maintain valid licenses.

Edgenics consultants can help school districts leverage EBS resources to further enhance their educational mission. Our project management approach to EBS license management will allow school districts to develop strategies that balance the educational and commercial uses of the EBS spectrum. Edgenics engineers can help school districts that are EBS Licensees to project manage EBS network deployments. By project management focused approaches to the management of EBS Licenses, Edgenics can help school districts achieve the educational goals envisioned by the FCC for this spectrum.