Two Wireless Items OK'd Before Thursday Meeting
FCC commissioners voted out two wireless items scheduled for Thursday, before the meeting. The more controversial of the two, on notification requirements for white spaces devices, provoked a fight between NAB and Microsoft. Microsoft asked the FCC to scale back…
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the notification requirements for white spaces devices in the draft. The company urged the FCC to “maintain its existing requirement that narrowband fixed WSDs be required to check the white space database once a day to ensure capturing wireless microphone reservations rather than the proposed 24 times a day.” NAB, long concerned about interference in the white spaces, asked the FCC to stick with the draft proposal. Commissioners added a short NPRM to the item, which explores Microsoft’s request, FCC officials said Wednesday. Commissioners also OK’d a draft NPRM seeking comment on whether to adopt four new or updated standards for equipment authorization and the certification of the telecommunication certification bodies that review new RF devices.