Pai Meets With Wilson Electronics on Proposed Cell Booster Rule Change

Wilson Electronics executives met with Chairman Ajit Pai and adviser Rachael Bender on the company’s December request that the FCC eliminate the personal-use restriction on consumer cell-signal boosters (see 1703240041). “Signal booster rules had proved to be a success, as evidenced by the fact that Wilson had shipped 750,000 consumer boosters under the rules and not one has caused interference to a wireless network,” said a filing in docket 10-4. “The personal-use restriction, which was not part of the compromise that the industry hammered out, has worked to defeat the purposes of the signal booster rules.”