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Broadcom, Qualcomm Say EU Shows 6 GHz Band Can Be Opened for Wi-Fi

EU studies demonstrate “Wi-Fi can share the 6 GHz band without causing harmful interference to fixed and satellite operations,” said Broadcom and Qualcomm representatives in a meeting with FCC Office of Engineering and Technology staff. European regulators have started to…

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draft “harmonized regulations that will enable” unlicensed use of the 5925-6425 MHz band, said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 17-183. “Europe’s experience and the conservative assumptions that they used should give U.S. regulators confidence in opening the 6 GHz band to indoor low power unlicensed operations." Tech players see the band, under examination at the FCC, as critical to Wi-Fi's future (see 1906260055).