Protect Use of Wireless Mics in TV White Spaces: Shure

Wireless mic maker Shure updated the FCC on its stance on rules for TV white spaces (TVWS) devices, amplifying earlier comments (see 2207050059). Shure said again in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 14-165 its principal concern in this proceeding is ensuring that wireless microphone users can rely on robust interference protections for the clear, uninterrupted, real-time wireless microphone transmissions that are critical to these users.” In their comments, the Open Technology Institute at New America, Public Knowledge and Microsoft “all decry the lack of available spectrum in the Television Bands in urban, suburban and even rural areas for white space devices (WSDs) as a problem that is particularly burdensome to WSD users,” Shure said: The three “are correct in their base assertion, indeed after two auctions and channel repacking, there is very little TVWS spectrum left. However, this is an even bigger problem for the thousands of microphones, licensed and unlicensed, supporting events and content creation and should not be viewed solely as a limit on the relatively few WSDs currently being utilized in the market.”