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Industry Presses FCC for Updated RF Standards

Members of the Mobile & Wireless Forum and CTIA General Counsel Tom Power said they met with an aide to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to recommend the FCC “update” its rules “to adopt the most current RF exposure standards.” The…

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group also sought “clear guidance from the FCC Lab for 5G devices.” The current approval requirements “are based on a standard developed and adopted by the FCC in the 1990’s, prior to the development of 3G, 4G and 5G technology,” the groups said in a Sunday filing in docket 13-84. That standard is “not sufficient to address testing issues for the next generation of products, and there is a pressing need for adoption of an updated standard such as the pending 2018 IEEE C95.1 standard,” the filing said. Representatives of Cisco, Intel and Motorola Solutions were at the meeting with Pai aide Rachael Bender.