Broadcom Chairman Meets Pai on Wi-Fi in 6 GHz Band
Chairman Henry Samueli and other Broadcom executives met Monday with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on the company’s “enthusiastic support” for the proposed framework for opening the 6 GHz band for unlicensed use. “An FCC decision to open the full 6…
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GHz band to unlicensed technologies is critical to accelerating deployment of 5G services in the U.S. and extending 5G’s reach beyond urban cores and into rural areas,” says a filing to come in docket 18-295. “Adjust the proposed framework in certain limited, but important, ways in order for the 6 GHz band to support all the benefits of Wi-Fi 6, and support 5G services in the near term. In particular, they emphasized the need for rules that allow low-power indoor operations throughout the band, and the importance of very-low-power portable operations.” The agency is examining Wi-Fi and other unlicensed use of the band (see 1903190050).