Sennheiser Meets With Commissioner Aides on WMAS Rules

Sennheiser representatives met with aides to all four FCC commissioners seeking FCC action on wireless multichannel audio system (WMAS) rules, which the agency took comment on more than two years ago (see 2104220056). “Sennheiser urged the Commission to adopt final rules in the WMAS proceeding in the near-term,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 21-115. Sennheiser discussed “that it filed its original Petition for Rulemaking … in 2018 solely to lift the wireless microphone bandwidth limit, and the Commission’s WMAS NPRM has been pending since April 2021.” WMAS has been authorized in other countries, Sennheiser noted: The U.S. “prides itself on being a global leader for spectrum innovation and development. Without the Commission finalizing rules in the WMAS proceeding, the United States will be unable to benefit from this revolutionary technology.”