The Telecommunications Industry Association has asked the FCC to reconsider a provision in a report and order it released in October concerning the agency’s 700 megahertz narrowband rules (TRDaily, Oct. 24, 2014). “TIA requests that the Commission amend the Order to reflect that at the time a manufacturer submits a device for type approval it may not yet be feasible or possible to have completed yet all the requirements for Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program (P25 CAP) certification,” the trade group said in a petition for reconsideration filed in PS dockets 13-87 and 06-229 and WT docket 96-86.

“At the time of equipment type approval application, the manufacturer may only be able to state that the product has been being designed to the Project 25 Standards, and to identify which Project 25 Common Air Interface capabilities that design intends to be compliant/interoperable. Alternately stated, a manufacturer could identify which Project 25 CAP tests that design intends to pass which is a direct reflection of intended Project 25 compliance and interoperability.”

Courtesy TRDaily