APCO Asks FCC to Stay 6 GHz Order
Stay the April 6 GHz order, which remains a threat to public safety communications, APCO said in a Friday filing in FCC docket 18-295. Radio local area network proponents recently invited stakeholders to participate in talks on establishing a multistakeholder…
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group to oversee interference problems, apparently with encouragement from the FCC, APCO said: The group is “unlikely to resolve the important issues of how to detect and mitigate interference from standard-power and low-power devices.” Wi-Fi proponents are “exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to argue for increasing unlicensed spectrum, rather than recognizing that the pandemic is straining public safety agencies and will have long-term impacts (such as exacerbating budgetary constraints) that will make interference to 6 GHz systems harder to address and more detrimental to their life-saving missions,” the group said. In May, APCO sought reconsideration (see 2005280047).