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Fixed Wireless Coalition Urges Cautious Approach to Changes for 6 GHz AFCs

The Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition urged the FCC to take a cautious approach in making any changes to power spectral density rules for automated frequency coordination systems in the 6 GHz band, as sought by Broadcom and others. “To ensure…

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transparency in future changes to AFC systems” the group asked the commission to “require operators making changes to their AFC to rerun the test vectors required by the Office of Engineering and Technology’s testing plan public notice and file a copy of the resulting report in the docket for public comment,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 21-352. The Broadcom letter “raises a crucial question about how changes to AFC systems will be made going forward,” the FWCC said: The OET public notice “did not specify what information would be necessary in future public notices regarding changes to an AFC” and the Broadcom letter “gives the Commission the opportunity to provide clarification on that question now.”