Pressure Continues on FCC to Seek Comment on 5.9 GHz Sharing

uses, and instead, to double down on a failed technology-specific approach to spectrum policy,” NCTA said Wednesday in docket 13-49: “This is nothing more than a renewed attempt to delay FCC action and preserve an unwarranted and underutilized government subsidy.” The Association of Global Automakers, meanwhile, reported on a meeting with aides to Commissioners Mike O’Rielly, Brendan Carr and Jessica Rosenworcel urging an NPRM that emphasizes continuing deploying “life-saving” vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services. “The representatives emphasized the importance of modernizing the 5.9 GHz as a flexible-use band to support increased innovation; prioritizing deployment of 2 million V2X radios within five years; and expediting deployment of a number of V2X radios equivalent to 75 percent of new light vehicles sold in the U.S. within ten years,” the group said in a filing posted Tuesday. Representatives of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Sheriffs’ Association and National Association of State EMS Officials told the FCC the band should be reserved “exclusively for transportation safety.” The groups, in a meeting with Public Safety Bureau staff, “highlighted the life-saving potential of transportation communication systems to both the public and members of the emergency services.”