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Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition Tells FCC Staff of Importance of 6 GHz Band

Representatives of the Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition met with FCC staff on the importance of the 6 GHz band to coalition members. An accompanying presentation said, “6 GHz is the only band available for links that must span tens of…

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miles.” The group stressed high fade margin, which it said is expensive but critical. “Fade margin is reserve power that allows communication to continue through fades,” FWCC said in docket 17-183. “Higher-reliability links require greater fade margin. Even a brief outage to one link can be catastrophic: all networked links in a system go down for several minutes while the system resynchronizes.”