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Sennheiser Meets With FCC Staff on Latest on WMAS Rules

Sennheiser demonstrated an “advanced working prototype” of its wireless multichannel audio system (WMAS) and explained how the prototype works, in a meeting with FCC Office of Engineering and Technology and Wireless Bureau staff, said a filing posted Tuesday in docket…

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21-115. The wireless mic company urged FCC action on proposed WMAS rules, teed up in an April NPRM (see 2104220056). “WMAS is designed for stage- or arena-based performances, and ... the complexity of the system and software interface does not lend itself to unsophisticated consumer operation,” the company said: “Sennheiser demonstrated that the design of its WMAS means that it actually poses less risk of interference to conventional narrowband systems than conventional narrowband systems do in a co-channel situation.”