Don't Revisit UWB Regulations as Part of Rules Review, GPSIA Says
The FCC's ultra-wideband (UWB) regulations adopted in 2002 remain necessary for preventing interference to GPS, and shouldn't be touched as part of a Regulatory Flexibility Act review of rules adopted between 2001 and 2004 (see 1612280030), the GPS Innovation Alliance…
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(GPSIA) said in a docket 16-251 filing posted Monday. GPSIA said the UWB proceeding, while controversial, "appropriately balanced" UWB and incumbent service interests, plus those of federal and nonfederal spectrum users and domestic and international technical considerations. Electronics manufacturer Robert Bosch in comments in May had pushed for the FCC to revisit its UWB technical rules "in order to allow new, useful, innovative and spectrum-efficient UWB products to be brought to the United States marketplace," saying one of the biggest problems is that all UWB devices need waivers in order to get grants of equipment authorization, causing delays, legal and engineering expenses, and uncertain outcomes. Bosch also suggested a variety of changes to eliminate what it called "regulation by waiver," including adding definitions of UWB minimum bandwidth and broadening the definitions of "imaging system" and surveillance system to permit additional UWB applications. GPSIA said Bosch's push for a broad revisiting of UWB rules is outside the narrower scope of the FCC proceeding and called Bosch's suggested changes "ill-advised, incomplete and unsupported." Bosch didn't comment.