ATIS Rule Implementation Pushed Back a Year

The FCC International Bureau is pushing back by one year identification requirement for digital video uplinks, to Sept. 3, 2017, to allow more time to update the record on costs of compliance and if any relief is needed, it said in an order Friday in docket 12-267. The external modulators needed to upgrade equipment to the new Automatic Transmitter Identification System rule "have not become available," and many earth station operators wouldn't be able to upgrade their transmitters as required, the FCC said.