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Automatic Frequency Control Key to Safe Launch of Wi-Fi in 6 GHz Band, FWCC Says

The Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition (FWCC) fired back at August tech company filings pressing for radio local access network operations in the 6 GHz band, a key band for Wi-Fi (see 1909090057). “These submissions are part of the proponents’ ongoing,…

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as yet unsuccessful, effort to establish that certain 6 GHz unlicensed RLANs can operate free of automatic frequency control, without causing harmful interference to Fixed Service (FS) receivers,” the coalition filed, posted Monday in docket 18-295: “Our analyses have shown the opposite: that uncontrolled RLANs at any useful power are statistically certain to cause harmful interference to the FS. For that reason, they cannot lawfully be authorized.”