Wireless Microphone Spectrum Alliance Seeks Streamlining of FCC Rules
The Wireless Microphone Spectrum Alliance (WMSA) met with FCC Office of Engineering and Technology staff about several regulatory changes the group is seeking, including in a filing in the “Delete” proceeding. Among the topics discussed was the group’s request “to remove the arbitrary and unnecessarily restrictive” 50 low-power auxiliary station device eligibility threshold for a Part 74 license, said a filing posted Friday in docket 25-133. The requirement “originated in 2012 and was based on a forecast of TV whitespace device deployment which has proved overly optimistic, rendering the rule entirely unnecessary and restrictive.”
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The alliance also wanted the FCC to drop a requirement that applications for special temporary authority prove in advance that they won’t cause interference to licensed incumbents, asking “the Commission to consider streamlining the process to replace ‘shall obtain consent’ from incumbents with ‘shall notify’ them. Standard wireless audio industry working practices today protect incumbent spectrum users, which make the above streamlined proposal more proportionate.”