Spectrum Sharing Critical to Wi-Fi, NCTA Says
Spectrum sharing is critical to Wi-Fi, NCTA said Monday in a post on its blog. “By increasing the amount of spectrum that Wi-Fi can share, our spectrum supply can keep pace with the tremendous growth in Wi-Fi usage and jump-start…
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a new generation of Wi-Fi that can reach speeds of up to a gigabit per second.” The group sees special promise in sharing the 5.9 GHz band with automakers who plan to use the spectrum for crash avoidance systems (see 1402040029). The spectrum was allocated more than 15 years ago for that use, NCTA said. It said that auto manufacturers haven't developed "a commercial product despite millions in government subsidies, which means that today, while there are neither auto nor Wi-Fi technologies in the band, is the perfect moment to rethink how these frequencies can be best utilized and shared and to develop a true win-win solution.”