Alcatel-Lucent, WISPA, Others Seek 5 GHz Equipment Deadline Delay
Alcatel-Lucent and the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) back a nine-month extension of a June 2 U-NII-3 equipment compliance deadline. As suggested by Intel and Netgear, nine months after an order on reconsideration "would be appropriate given the need…
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for chip makers and equipment manufacturers to design compliant U-NII-3 products and distribute them through the supply chain to broadband providers, utilities and consumers," said Alcatel-Lucent, WISPA and others in a filing posted Wednesday in docket 13-49; in that docket, the FCC said U-NII-3 is for operation in the 5725-5850 MHz band. The agency should adopt the group's out-of-band emission proposal, which also would provide "sufficient certainty and time for the marketplace to implement and test equipment, and sufficient time for the FCC to approve these devices before the deadline," said the filing signers, which also included Cambium Networks, Mimosa Networks, Ubiquiti Networks and Zebra Technologies. Earlier this year, the commission delayed by five months a U-NII-3 deadline for certifying broadband gear (see 1507010044). The group also wants that deadline again delayed, emailed communications lawyer Stephen Coran of Lerman Senter, who made the recent filing. The Dec. 2 deadline, which is the one the FCC had already delayed, is when U-NII-3 devices can no longer be certified under the “old” out-of-band emission rules, he said. The June 2 deadline is when those devices can no longer be marketed or deployed, noted Coran.