Google Urges Updated FCC 60 GHz Rules
Google supported 60 GHz “updated rules” that "promote reasonable coexistence across technologies,” in a filing posted Tuesday in FCC docket 14-177. “Characteristics of the 60 GHz band are extremely favorable for radar applications,” it said: Recent waivers of power-level rules…
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for deployment “of potentially life-saving 60 GHz radars” and “pending waiver requests illustrate that industry interest in the band is large" and growing. Facebook, Intel and Qualcomm recently also sought updated rules (see 2105110062). Both letters mention the work on coordination by the 60 GHz Coexistence Study Group. “While Google products including Soli chipsets have been available in markets around the globe since October 2019, Google has received no reports of interference from those devices’ operations,” Google said.