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REC Networks Opposes Deletion of FCC Rules for Cordless Phones

REC Networks asked the FCC not to eliminate rules covering the use of unlicensed consumer-grade cordless phones in the 43.71-44.49, 46.60-46.98, 48.75-49.51 and 49.66-50.00 MHz bands as part of the agency’s “Delete” proceeding. The commission “provides absolutely no data that…

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there are positively zero of these old phones, including the ‘46/49’ cordless phones marketed primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s in circulation,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 25-133. Some handsets for those phones “may use batteries that are still available to this day, including standard batteries that are not exclusively used by cordless telephone handsets.”