NAB Opposes Microsoft-Sought Changes on White Spaces Draft
NAB representatives asked the FCC to approve the notification requirements for white spaces devices, in a draft item scheduled for commissioners' vote Thursday (see 2201060057), in calls with aides to the four commissioners. NAB opposed changes sought by Microsoft (see…
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2201180058). The initial push notification requirement “proved unworkable, and the draft item would replace it with a requirement that devices recheck the database once per hour, concluding that this adequately balances the need to protect licensed services with considerations regarding [TV white spaces] battery life and form factor,” said an NAB filing posted Friday in docket 12-268. “Microsoft now seeks to tear up this compromise approach by insisting that the push notification requirement should be eliminated and replaced by nothing for certain classes of devices.”