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Dedicate All of 5.9 GHz Band to ITS, Continental Automotive Systems Tells Carr Aide

The worldwide trend is to use the 5.9 GHz band for intelligent transportation systems, and allocating 45 MHz in the U.S. for Wi-Fi would make the U.S. an outlier, Continental Automotive Systems said in a call with an aide to…

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FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. “Brazil has now announced that it is also allocating 75 MHz of spectrum in the 5.9 GHz band for ITS, joining a large number of countries that have allocated substantially more than 30 MHz for ITS in the 5.9 GHz band,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 19-138.