Tech Companies Urge FCC to Act on Revised 60 GHz Rules
Intel, Meta and Qualcomm representatives urged the FCC to consider their proposal for future use of the 60 GHz band, in a call with an aide to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. “The companies presented a proposal that would allow the 57-64…
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GHz portion of the FCC’s 60 GHz unlicensed band to successfully support expanded radar applications and reliable” augmented, virtual, extended and mixed reality, said a filing posted Tuesday in docket 21-264. The band was the topic of an NPRM last summer (see 2107130066). Their proposal “allows 2 GHz radars to transmit at 20 dBm [effective isotropic radiated power] without any duty cycle limitations, and it completely removes the conducted power limit in the NPRM proposal to allow radar equipment designers greater implementation flexibility across the 57-64 GHz band,” the companies said: “The proposal also offers more permissive operating parameters for 4.5 GHz and 7 GHz radars than what our companies previously requested.”