The FCC held a workshop on May 6th to discuss the development of its new Consolidated Licensing System (CLS). The CLS will become the vehicle by which all UTC members will access their license information. The purpose of the workshop was to explore legal and technical challenges the Commission is likely to encounter as it develops and deploys the agency-wide CLS.

The CLS is intended to replace all of the Commission’s current licensing systems used for the different services it regulates, among them the ULS, ASR, COALS, CDBS, ELS and IBFS. Participants in the roundtable workshop included representatives from the legal community, broadcast, wireless, and tower industries, amateur operators, and associations and frequency advisory committees including UTC. Read more »