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May 8 Deadline Set for Comments on WRC-19 Draft Recommendations

Comments are due May 8 on the FCC World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) Advisory Committee's draft recommendations, and on NTIA's draft proposals submitted to the FCC, the International Bureau said in a public notice Monday in docket 16-185. The comments will…

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help the FCC, NTIA and State Department come up with U.S. positions for WRC-19, it said. The committee draft proposals include potentially supporting an agenda item at WRC-23 on spectrum requirements for telemetry, tracking and commanding and voice communications on suborbital vehicles such as manned reusable launchers and high-altitude balloons and opposing agenda items regarding identifying spectrum specifically for railway radiocommunication or for intelligent transport systems or machine type communications. The committee draft also opposes changes to radio regulations for earth station licensing. The NTIA proposals include opposition to agenda items regarding unauthorized operation of earth station terminals and spectrum for machine-type communications and for railway radiocommunications.