NAB Wants TVWS Rules Either Amended or Dropped
The FCC should either amend or eliminate its TV white space rules, NAB said in a meeting Wednesday with Office of Engineering and Technology Chief Julius Knapp, according to an ex parte filing in docket 16-56. “The Commission’s current approach…
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-- allowing TVWS operations in the face of the documented failure of its rules and ongoing noncompliance with those rules -- is incoherent.” The TVWS database is inaccurate, and guidance from OET requires that any device that doesn't comply with the FCC's push notification requirement must cease operating on Dec. 23, yet no industry standards exist for complying with the push requirement, NAB said. “To NAB’s knowledge, TVWS database administrators and TVWS device manufacturers have taken no steps to comply with this requirement,” the group said. “The Commission should either adopt and enforce effective rules that will allow TVWS devices to coexist with licensed operations, or it should eliminate or suspend TVWS operations.”