Cable Industry Urging Light-Touch AFC Approach on 6 GHz Coordination
The full 1200 MHz of the 6 GHz band should be opened to unlicensed use, though coexistence between indoor low-power Wi-Fi and indoor broadcast auxiliary services and low-power auxiliary stations needs to be worked out, NCTA, Charter, Comcast and Cox…
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representatives told an aide to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, per a docket 18-295 posting Monday. Cablers said low-power indoor use of the 6 GHz sub-bands doesn't require automated frequency coordination (AFC). They seek light-touch AFC rules focused on protecting incumbents, and not requiring staged AFC deployment, specifying funding means or deciding if AFC should be centralized or decentralized. On C-band clearing and protecting uplink operations there, the industry discussed an antenna restriction for outdoor access points akin to what the agency adopted for the U-NII-1 band to limit aggregate noise at C-band uplink receivers. The cable reps opposed a cap on aggregate interference.