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The Telecommunications Industry Association is confident stakeholders can...

The Telecommunications Industry Association is confident stakeholders can resolve any concerns about spectrum interference in the upper 5 GHz band, it said, praising bicameral, bipartisan legislation that would compel FCC testing in that band. A bipartisan group of House lawmakers…

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introduced a companion to the Senate version of the legislation (S-2505) Wednesday. The bill, HR-5125, is called the Wi-Fi Innovation Act. Any interference “can be successfully resolved in a manner that enables increased use of the band for technologies such as Wi-Fi while not compromising the efficacy or safety of potential intelligent transportation systems (ITS) uses of the band,” TIA President Grant Seiffert said in a written statement Thursday. “By encouraging the FCC to move swiftly in conducting testing, the legislation introduced today holds the promise of creating a win-win scenario that allows this valuable spectrum resource to be used more efficiently.”