RF Noise Increases as IoT Gears Up Will Lead to 'World of Pain,' AFCCE Tells Pai

Increasing levels of RF noise will create a “world of pain” for radio communications services, the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers said in a meeting with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Tuesday, according to an ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 16-191. “If the noise situation is not addressed the highly-anticipated IoT may fall well short of expectation,” AFCCE said. Lack of adequate rule enforcement is leading to “both increased unlicensed operations and increasingly non-compliant operations, both of which frustrate rule-abiding operators and challenge the ability to share spectrum,” the group said. It said the FCC should expedite the creation of online interference complaint portals and “re-establish programs of random inspections and post-marketing sampling and measurements to assess and monitor the state of compliance.”