FWCC Takes Issue With 6 GHz AFC Waiver
The Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition is seeking review of a waiver approved for the Wi-Fi Alliance allowing automated frequency coordination systems in the 6 GHz band to take building entry loss into account for “composite” standard-power and low-power devices that…
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are restricted to operating indoors. The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology approved the waiver last month (see 2412050049). “Did OET’s finding that special circumstances warranted grant of the Waiver Request conflict with case precedent regarding what constitutes special circumstances?” FWCC asked in a filing Monday in docket 23-107. Taken through delegated authority, the action “conflicts with statute, regulation, case precedent, or established Commission policy,” in violation of FCC rules, the group said: “OET erred by failing to articulate ‘special circumstances beyond those considered during regular rulemaking.’”