Wi-Fi Alliance, Tech Players, Back Indoor Use Questions in 6 GHz Band NPRM
The Wi-Fi Alliance urged the FCC to propose low-power, indoor use of the 6 GHz band without automatic frequency coordination (AFC). “There are many reasons that low power unlicensed devices restricted to indoor-only use are unlikely to cause harmful interference…
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to fixed service stations,” the coalition said. “Those unlicensed devices are most likely to be operated at or near ground level -- removed from the main beam of microwave transmissions, or in high-rise structures where structural steel, concrete and treated windows absorb most of radiofrequency energy outside.” The alliance said Friday in docket 18-295 it met with aides to the four commissioners and Julius Knapp, chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology. Commissioners will consider proposed rules at their meeting on allowing Wi-Fi in the 6 GHz band (see 1810010027). Add additional questions to the NPRM “and provide more specific guidance about the types of evidence that would be most useful to the Commission in assessing the feasibility of these operations in each 6 GHz sub-band,” tech players said in FCC meetings with Mike O’Rielly and aides to the other commissioners. “Consider additional questions about the use of portable access points in the 6 GHz band, which have proven to be a key use case in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed bands." They sought a comment request "on how technical rules governing transmitters can promote rural broadband deployment in the 6 GHz band.” The filing was signed by Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Marvell Technology Group, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Ruckus Networks.