Utilities' 6 GHz Red Flags Flawed, Tech Interests Say
Arguments against opening the 6 GHz band to unlicensed operations rely on "flawed and unreliable" analysis, tech industry representatives told aides to the four FCC commissioners, per a docket 18-295 filing Monday. They said Evergy's claims of potential interference from…
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6 GHz low-power indoor operations from utility use of the band (see 2303020077) relied on a "carefully manufactured, unrealistic, worse-than-worst-case study." They said FirstEnergy's arguments about interference by low-power indoor devices in the 6 GHz band to its licensed operations (see 2301130037) made such errors as artificially maximizing line of sight to microwave receivers ignoring real-world power levels. They said supposed interference events in Miami highlighted by APCO (see 2211220044) involved devices not operating under the FCC's 6 GHz rules and apparently were operating improperly in the band. Meeting with the FCC were reps from Apple, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Meta, Microsoft and Qualcomm. APCO, FirstEnergy and Evergy reps didn't comment.