AT&T, Wi-Fi Alliance Disagree What 6 GHz Record Shows
AT&T and the Wi-Fi Alliance traded jabs on whether the FCC has the record it needs to justify revised rules allowing more use of very-low-power or low-power indoor 6 GHz devices, teed up in a 2020 Further NPRM (see 2204080042).…
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“Despite the Further Notice underscoring the need for the record to be supplemented with respect to these proposals” Wi-Fi device makers “have still not met the evidentiary burden of demonstrating that the Further Notice proposals -- and proposals introduced after the Further Notice -- are in the public interest and can be implemented without causing harmful interference to existing licensed primary Fixed Service incumbents,” AT&T said in a March 31 filing in docket 18-295. “As part of its efforts to impede and delay low-cost broadband connectivity by continuing to oppose unlicensed operations” in the 6 GHz band, AT&T “now complains that there are ‘fatal deficiencies’ in the record that constrain the Commission from acting on its proposals in the” notice, the alliance said, posted Tuesday: “AT&T effectively asserts that the Commission could not possibly decide to permit greater use of very low power or low power indoor 6 GHz devices. To reach its flawed conclusions, AT&T misinterprets the rulemaking process and the record.”