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Tech Wants FCC Look at Unlicensed 60 GHz Use

Update rules on unlicensed use of the 60 GHz band, said Facebook, Intel and Qualcomm in a Tuesday posting in docket 14-177. “To the extent the FCC proposes to revise this Part 15 unlicensed rule” to allow radar operations in…

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the band “at higher power than presently permitted and with a 10% duty cycle in a 33-millisecond period, the agency should also propose to include a provision to ensure such radar operations do not completely occupy the … band and inhibit communications applications,” they said. Tesla and others sought waivers to use the spectrum (see 2103160059).