UPCS Applicants No Longer Must Be Members of UTAM, FCC Says

The FCC is dropping a requirement that applicants for certification of Unlicensed Personal Communications Service devices must be members of UTAM, said a Federal Registernotice Friday. UTAM was established to clear the 1910-1930 MHz band of incumbent microwave licensees and the membership requirement was established to guarantee it had money to do its job, the FCC said. But UTAM has told the FCC it has accomplished this objective and the group is being dissolved, the agency said.