O'Rielly, Latta Urge Continued Work on 5.9 GHz
Work on opening the 5.9 GHz band must continue, said House Communications Subcommittee Vice Chairman Bob Latta, R-Ohio, and FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly in a joint blog post for The Hill, written earlier this month and circulated to press by…
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the Commerce Committee Thursday. “The next step in the process is to develop a testing framework, which will ensure that science and engineering determine the best way to allow co-existence in this key spectrum band,” they said. “After some initial reluctance, all interested parties seem to accept that the FCC should move forward with such testing this year. ... We trust that this process can start quickly and focus on appropriately protecting DSRC [dedicated short range communications] technology’s principal functions, not non-safety matters that can be better addressed by other providers or technologies.”