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CTIA asked the FCC to delay by 30...

CTIA asked the FCC to delay by 30 days the June 11 deadline for reply comments on proposed changes to the commission’s wireless location accuracy rules. Under rules proposed in February (CD Feb 21 p1) carriers for the first time…

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would have to meet standards for wireless calls made indoors. In initial comments, carriers asked the FCC to wait for voluntary agreements rather than impose new rules (CD May 14 p10). CTIA noted that more than 300 commenters filed in the initial round. “More than 40 of these comments were substantive in nature and many raised complex issues regarding the technical feasibility of the rules and discussed various location technologies,” CTIA said in a filing posted by the FCC Friday in docket 07-114 (http://bit.ly/1kdE8MH). Providing additional time would give everyone a chance to “evaluate the record regarding various technologies and the proposed rules and to prepare submissions enabling the Commission to make a decision based on a fully developed record,” CTIA said.