That would be up to the league (The NFL for the mental midgets who don’t pay attention to details) who is in charge of supplying, setting up, and administering the system.
If they deemed it a problem, they should have addressed it. If that is the case, they should have just stopped the game for 15 seconds, informed the head coaches, and shut the system off. I am sure the Patriots would have made no fuss at all, they wouldn’t have cried, bitched, and moaned like the idiots who are making a case out of it.
But when was the last time the NFL addressed anything correctly?
That’s actually basically the NFL procedure, if one’s team’s headsets are out the other has to turn their off. BUT there’s two significant provisos to that rule:
1 the problem has to be consistent, last night’s problem was intermittent
2 only one team has the problem, according to Belichick their headset were having the same issue
With both teams reporting having the same intermittent problem the league considers it “fair” and tries to fix the problem without making anybody turn their set off.