Wi-Fi Advocates Seek Quick FCC Action Opening 6 GHz Band
Companies and associations urged opening the 6 GHz band for sharing with Wi-Fi, writing FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. “The Wi-Fi industry powers 13 billion devices worldwide,” said Tuesday's letter in docket 18-295: “Wi-Fi has become the single most important wireless…
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technology for American consumers and businesses.” The letter notes no new mid-band spectrum has been made available for Wi-Fi for 20 years, “causing a severe shortage for a wireless technology that handles 75 percent of mobile data traffic.” Apple, Boingo Wireless, Broadcom, Charter Communications, Cisco, the Consortium for School Networking, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Juniper Networks, Marvell, Microsoft, Netgear, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Philips North America, Public Knowledge, Qualcomm, Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition, Sony Electronics, Wireless ISP Association and Wisper Internet were among signers.