New Zealand - Radiocommunications Regulations Notice 2019

​The Radio Spectrum Management, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment published the Radiocommunications Regulations (General User Radio Licence for Short Range Devices) Notice 2019 in the New Zealand Gazette earlier. This notice came into force on 8 April 2019. The following amendments were included:

a) a new provision to clarify the use of the frequency range 5725 – 5850 MHz for customer premise equipment with higher antenna gain operating in conjunction with an associated fixed radio link device acting as a central access point, as permitted in the Radiocommunications Regulations (General User Radio Licence for Fixed Radio Link Devices) Notice 2015;
b) an increase in maximum transmission power (e.i.r.p.) in the frequency range 502 – 510 MHz from −10 dBW to −3 dBW in order to align with the same power as permitted in General User Spectrum Licence for UHF Radio Microphone (Licence number 222922);
c) a new special condition 29 was added to clarify that the frequency ranges 0.009 – 0.205 MHz and 0.315 – 0.430 MHz could also be used for applications such as wireless power transfer systems;
d) an amendment to the provision in the frequency range 184 – 230 MHz to reflect the updated lower frequency boundary due to the reallocation of the frequency range 174 – 184 MHz for land mobile use;
e) an amendment to Special Condition 14 by applying the duty cycle requirement only for the portion in 405 – 406 MHz, instead of the frequency range 402 – 406 MHz;
f) an amalgamation of two previous provisions in 76 – 77 GHz and 77 – 81 GHz into a single contiguous provision 76 – 81 GHz with the maximum transmission power (e.i.r.p.) at 25 dBW.