OET Denies Stay Requests on 6 GHZ
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology denied requests from APCO and the Edison Electric Institute to stay the 6 GHz band order, said a docket 18-295 order Thursday. “We find that both APCO and EEI have failed to demonstrate…
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that the extraordinary equitable relief of a stay is warranted,” the order said. They didn’t demonstrate that they’re likely to prevail in their legal challenges of the rules or show that a stay wouldn’t harm others, OET said. The new 6 GHz rules will help meet growing, COVID-19-exacerbated demand for broadband and a stay would postpone those benefits, the order said. “Given the expected benefits that will result from deployment by both consumers and businesses of 6 GHz unlicensed devices, and the unlikely, speculative nature of the petitioners’ claims about the alleged dangers, we conclude that petitioners have not established that it would be in the public interest” to stay the new rules, the order said. “OET made the right decision,” said Wireless ISP Association Vice President-Policy Louis Peraertz in a statement. The FCC “made a thorough examination of the 6 GHz proceeding, which was open, diverse and robust, and properly chose not to require [automated frequency coordination] AFC for low power indoor devices or location-accuracy requirements for standard-power access points to define exclusion zones in the band.” APCO and EEI didn’t comment.