The Federal Communications Commission has granted the wireless industry's request for a round of tests to determine whether the agency's proposed free, smutless broadband plan will cause interference in nearby bands recently sold to wireless providers. The announcement is a victory for T-Mobile, which has led the battle to extend the Commission's proceeding on the proposal to allow for conflict testing in and around the 2155-2180MHz zone.

The FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) announced the tests yesterday. They will be run at a Boeing aircraft facility near Seattle, Washington. "Given the interest in several different parties to complete this testing we agreed to do so and will add the results into the public record on this proceeding," FCC spokesperson Robert Kenny told Ars this morning.

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