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Wireless Mics Good Spectrum Neighbors After Incentive Auction, Sennheiser Says

Sennheiser representatives met with aides to all FCC members on the wireless mic maker's proposals for devices in the TV band, after the incentive auction, the company said in an ex parte filing in docket 12-268. The Sennheiser reps “disabused…

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the myth that wireless microphone technology is not cutting edge or spectrally efficient” and “emphasized the importance of wireless microphones to one of our country’s most vital industries, content creation,” said the filing. It said Sennheiser highlighted the differences between wireless mics and white spaces devices “which allow wireless microphones to be good spectrum neighbors to incoming 600 MHz licensees and to not require control by a database.” Two clear UHF channels for wireless mics without white space devices “is a need not a want,” the company said.