CAN, ACT, OTI Meet With FCC Democratic Staff on ATSC 3.0 DTS
The FCC’s proposed distributed transmission system rule changes “would allow broadcasters to transmit beyond their existing service area without a clearly defined need for such an expansion” and “undermine” TV white space technology, said Connect Americans Now, ACT|The App Association…
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and the Open Technology Institute at New America in calls with aides to FCC Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Geoffrey Starks Tuesday, per a joint ex parte filing in docket 20-74. If DTS deployments are permitted more than a minimal amount of spillover, the FCC should “explicitly state" in the report and order that "these transmissions are unlicensed and do not receive interference protection,” the filing said. The agency should maintain the existing contour and deny changes that would allow DTS signal spillover above a minimum amount outside licensed service areas. FCC and industry officials told us the item received the necessary votes to be approved, but it hadn’t been released.