NCTA Pushes for Action on Wi-Fi in 5.9 GHz Band
NCTA, eager to use the 5.9 GHz band for Wi-Fi, met with Daudeline Meme, aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, to discuss a pending public notice to refresh the record in the proceeding. “We encouraged the Commission to seek comment on…
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both sense-and-avoid and re-channelization sharing approaches, the appropriate sharing approaches for both crash-avoidance and other Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) applications, and whether policies and assumptions the Commission made regarding DSRC in 1999 remain valid seventeen years later,” NCTA said. The filing was posted in FCC docket 13-49. Chairman Tom Wheeler is expected to push forward on rules allowing shared use of the band before the end of his chairmanship (see 1604280043).