The Wi-Fi Alliance urged the FCC and NTIA...
The Wi-Fi Alliance urged the FCC and NTIA to work with the Wi-Fi industry on a collaborative process that would allow operation of both Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in the 5 GHz band.…
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“We agree that the transportation uses of the spectrum at 5.9 GHz may advance automotive safety, and that the 5.9 GHz band must continue to be a home for ITS as the technology progresses toward commercialization,” the group said in a letter (http://bit.ly/11cdlDB) to acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling. “We fully agree with NTIA, the FCC, and many transportation stakeholders, that in a shared U-NII-4 scenario, unlicensed devices must not cause harmful interference to ITS licensees.” The alliance said NTIA recognized in its report on the 5350-5470 MHz and 5860-5925 MHz bands that “a variety of sharing mechanisms could be adopted to permit ITS and Wi-Fi to coexist” in the spectrum. “We believe Wi-Fi technology is complementary to certain ITS technologies under consideration,” the group said. “As such, we believe that the introduction of Wi-Fi to the ... band has the potential to advance the cause of vehicle safety and to hasten the widespread implementation of ITS solutions by creating economies of scale among components used for communications and networking."