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Changes to 6 GHz Rules Could Cripple Electronic Newsgathering, NAB Warns

The FCC must consider the effect of allowing electronic newsgathering (ENG) operations by very-low-power (VLP) unlicensed deviceuse in the 6 GHz band, NAB said in a filing posted Friday in docket 18-295. The FCC is expected to consider revised rules…

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for the band in December (see 2010190040). “This is not merely a theoretical concern,” NAB said: Broadcasters covering the "spontaneous vigil" in front of the Supreme Court the night Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died "were directly in the crowd itself, with little or no physical distance between their equipment and mourners. Had members of the crowd been carrying VLP devices, those devices could easily have caused interference to these ENG operations.”