The NAB criticized Microsoft’s call for more testing of a device ...
The NAB criticized Microsoft’s call for more testing of a device designed to operate in broadcast white spaces without causing interference, after the FCC Office of Engineering and technology gave the device a failing grade. “Microsoft doesn’t seem to…
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get that the FCC process is not a game and they cannot have a do-over,” NAB Executive Vice President Douglas Wiley said in a letter to Jack Krumholtz, managing director of federal government affairs at Microsoft. It’s “outrageous” that Microsoft claims the device works “after the fact,” Wiley said. “With the immense importance of the testing to innumerable stakeholders, one would think that your industry would certainly ensure the good working order of the prototype devices, at the very least.” Meanwhile, the Community Broadcasters Association expressed strong concerns about the OET data. “CBA is obviously alarmed at the OET findings that prototype White Space devices do not reliably detect the presence of usable broadcast signals,” the group said in a filing at the FCC. “If these professional devices failed to exclude channels that might be occupied by weak television broadcast signals, CBA fears that the performance of consumer-grade devices will be disastrous.”