NYC Concerned About Wi-Fi Devices in 6 Ghz Band
New York City warned in a Tuesday filing that opening the 6 GHz band to unlicensed use would cost the city money and any changes would take time to complete. “The City expends considerable financial and human resources to ensure…
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that its public safety mission critical radio communications systems are reliable under all circumstances,” it said in docket 18-295, responding to the 6 GHz NPRM. The proposals “if enacted as written, will force the City to re-design many of its microwave backhaul links in order to ensure that the City’s mission critical land mobile radio systems continue to perform to public safety reliability standards under all conditions.” The city is concerned that in cases where fixed service (FS) microwave receivers are located in or on high buildings “within dense urban areas, a transmitting unlicensed device may interfere with the weak signal present at FS microwave receivers supporting public safety or critical infrastructure land mobile radio operations,” the filing said. The city is also concerned about restrictions on new or expanded FS microwave links for public safety and other operations, it said.