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Court tells FCC to revisit BPL rules

Published Friday, May 02, 2008

FCC commissioners need to do a better job justifying the agency’s rules governing broadband-over-power-line (BPL) emission levels, according to a federal appeals court. In a ruling last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in favor of the amateur-radio organization ARRL on two items regarding the FCC’s BPL rules, requiring the agency to disclose the entirety of its BPL field tests cited in the rules and to explain its reasoning for emission-level limits. ARRL CEO David Sumner said the court’s decision to have the FCC revisit the emission-level rules was particularly significant. “It’s very ...

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