Officials of IBM, Intel, Sharp Labs of America, Siemens and Texas...
Officials of IBM, Intel, Sharp Labs of America, Siemens and Texas Instruments urged FCC Chmn. Powell to push for “prompt adoption” of ultra-wideband rules. They said they were writing after FCC decision earlier this month to take UWB off…
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Dec. 12 agenda meeting, with plans to take it up again in Feb. meeting. “We appreciate your commitment to resolve this process in February,” they wrote. “We are concerned that a short delay could be extended, which in turn would be a substantial setback to the timely development and deployment of UWB services. This could have a negative impact on current industry momentum focused on building UWB technology and products.” Letter was signed by Kevin Kahn, dir., Communications & Interconnect Technology Lab for Intel; Steven Stewart, dir., public affairs, IBM; John Boidock, vp- govt. relations, Texas Instruments; Ken Gray, dir., Multimedia Communications Dept., Sharp; Gregg Ward, vp-govt. relations, Siemens. Group said UWB proceeding was 3 years old and had resulted in docket with 800 documents. “UWB proponents have filed detailed technical analyses showing that operation of their devices will not cause harmful interference to other users of the spectrum, both government and nongovernment,” letter said: “It is time to issue a decision.” At latest, decision should be made at Feb. agenda meeting, letter said.