Petitioners Seek Waiver of 5 GHz Rules
The Wireless ISP Association and other groups and companies asked the FCC to extend by six months the deadlines for Part 15 devices in the 5725-5850 MHz band to meet new equipment certification requirements and marketing restrictions. “The Joint Petitioners…
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believe that a brief six-month extension will enable the Commission, other federal agencies and commercial interests to consider the Joint Petitioners’ recent consensus proposal to amend Section 15.407 to help compensate for the elimination of the less-restrictive out-of-band emission requirements in Section 15.247, without increasing the potential for harmful interference to Terminal Doppler Weather Radar facilities,” said a petition for waiver, posted by the FCC Wednesday in docket 13-49. Petitioners include makers of 5 GHz point-to-multipoint and point-to-point equipment, WISPs and critical infrastructure providers, the petition said. Industry faces an initial June 2 deadline. “The Joint Petitioners strongly believe that the Consensus Proposal will promote the public interest by allowing consumers to continue to obtain robust fixed wireless service and by enabling critical infrastructure companies to continue to deliver existing services,” the filing said. Also signing off on the petition were Alcatel-Lucent, the American Petroleum Institute, Cambium Networks, Fastback Networks, Jab Wireless, Mimosa Networks and Zebra Technologies.