FCC States Spectrum Management Principles for Transmitters & Receivers

The Federal Communications Commission took a fresh look at spectrum management and established a set of high-level principles on how the FCC intends to manage spectrum going forward. The Policy Statement is part of the FCC’s effort to reorient its spectrum management framework to a holistic consideration of both transmitter and receiver components of wireless systems. The Policy Statement underscores the important role that improved receiver performance can play in promoting more efficient spectrum use and enabling valuable new services to be introduced that will benefit the American public. The Policy Statement adopted will help inform potential future FCC considerations and actions concerning harmful interference issues, the responsibilities of both transmitters and receivers to mitigate interference, and the further regulatory steps to ensure coexistence among services in increasingly congested spectrum bands.