Major Tech Players Meet Commissioner Aides on 6 GHz Band
A group of tech company executives met with aides to all the FCC commissioners on the 6 GHz band, urging the agency to authorize use of the band indoors without automated frequency control (AFC). The issue figured large when the…
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FCC took comment earlier this year (see 1903180047). “We expressed support for the NPRM’s framework, its recognition of the need for additional unlicensed frequencies, and the importance of FCC rules implementing a framework that would support intensive use of the band,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 17-183. “We explained that authorization of low-power, indoor-only devices throughout the band is critical to this goal as AFC control may be incompatible with a number of important use cases and device price points.” The companies also said the FCC should allow very-low-power devices “at power levels 160 times lower than today’s Wi-Fi -- to enable important short-range, portable applications.” Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft and Qualcomm had representatives at the meetings.