FCC Commissioners to Vote on Wi-Fi, C-V2X Use of 5.9 GHz
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai confirmed Tuesday commissioners will vote Nov. 18 on their long-awaited order opening the 5.9 GHz band for Wi-Fi and cellular vehicle-to-everything.
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
The proposed rules make the lower 45 MHz available for unlicensed uses like Wi-Fi, said an FCC news release. The upper 30 MHz would be allocated to C-V2X, with no specific allocation for dedicated short-range communications. DSRC has occupied the band for 20 years.
“5.9 GHz spectrum has lain fallow for far too long,” Pai said: “For the last two decades, the American people have waited for this prime mid-band spectrum to be put to use, and the time for waiting is over. … We should move on from DSRC and unlock forward-looking automotive safety technology.”