NAB Seeks Reconsideration of FCC's Latest 6 GHz Order
NAB on Monday sought reconsideration of an FCC order that expanded the parts of the 6 GHz band where new very-low-power devices are permitted to operate without coordination (see 2412110040). The FCC declined to set aside 55 MHz as a “safe haven” for electronic newsgathering operations, as NAB requested (see 2410290052). Commissioners approved the order 5-0 in December,
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The order “declined to adopt NAB’s very limited proposal for a temporary reservation of a mere 55 MHz at the top of the band for exclusive licensed use or to provide any other meaningful safeguard against harmful interference,” said a petition posted Monday in docket 18-295. “Instead, in a rush to give away the maximum amount of free spectrum to Big Tech, the Order abandons a basic premise of unlicensed operation -- that it is ‘subject to the condition … that no harmful interference is caused.’” But “in numerous filings in the record of this proceeding, NAB has demonstrated that there are myriad circumstances in which interference may occur.”