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NCTA Urges FCC to Wrap Up Work on Parts of 6 GHz FNPRM

Representatives of NCTA, CableLabs and cable companies urged the FCC to adopt rules proposed in a 2020 Further NPRM (see 2004230059) allowing low-power indoor use of the 6 GHz band at levels higher than now allowed. They met with staff…

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from the Office of Engineering and Technology. “The 6 GHz FNPRM’s proposed LPI power levels will not increase the risk of harmful interference to Fixed Service (FS) incumbent operators in the 6 GHz band,” the cable interests said in a filing posted Monday in docket 18-295: “CableLabs has repeatedly confirmed this with detailed technical analyses that use signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), rather than interference-to-noise power ratio (I/N), to determine the actual risk of impairment to an FS link’s signal. SINR is a more accurate indicator of interference risk than I/N because it is based on how interference (I) and noise (N) could affect a known signal (S).”