Monday, August 15, 2022

U.S. Appeals Court Upholds FCC’s 5.9 GHz Changes

By Leslie Stimson, Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a legal challenge to the FCC’s 2020 decision to reallocate much of the 5.9 GHz band spectrum set aside for auto safety to accommodate wireless devices. The auto safety industry fought the change to reallocate 60 percent of the band.

The spectrum was reserved in 1999, for automakers to develop technology to allow vehicles to communicate with each other to avoid crashes. But when it made the change, the FCC said the band was under-used, Inside Towers reported. Continue Reading

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