Deadline for U-NII-3 Certification of Broadband Equipment Again Delayed

The FCC is again delaying the U-NII-3 deadline for certifying broadband equipment. The Dec. 2 deadline for National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices to meet revised Section 15.407 rules in order to be certified is being pushed to March 2, the full commission said in an order Thursday. That three-month delay in implementation follows comments by the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association and others (see 1511250037) requesting that extension as part of broader review of out-of-band-emission rules adopted for the U-NII-3 band, the agency said. The deadline initially was to be June 1 (see 1507010044). The FCC said it will continue to follow the previous Section 15.247 guidelines through March 2 when certifying U-NII-3 band devices.