Utilities, Tech at Odds Over 6 GHz Band Wi-Fi Study
Tech and utilities interests continue to lock horns over Wi-Fi operations in the 6 GHz band. Utilities in a docket 18-295 ex parte posting Monday said their analysis of potential of harmful interference to their microwave links in the band…
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(see 2001140057) is "based on conservative and realistic assumptions and inputs." CableLabs said otherwise (see 2002040066). The utilities in the filing -- Edison Electric Institute, the American Gas Association, the American Public Power Association, the American Water Works Association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Nuclear Energy Institute and the Utilities Technology Council -- defended the study's methodology and calculations. But Apple, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel Microsoft, NXP Semiconductors and Qualcomm said the study -- after "suitable adjustments to correct certain obvious errors" in assumptions and methodology -- shows radio local area networks aren't a harmful interference risk.