Stay Order Opening 6 GHz For Unlicensed Use, Power Associations Urge FCC
Three electricity associations support an Edison Electric Institute request for a stay, pending judicial review, of an April FCC order opening the 6 GHz band for unlicensed use (see 2004230059). “EEI is likely to prevail on the merits; utilities would…
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suffer irreparable harm absent a stay, and other parties would not suffer immediate harm if the stay is granted,” said the American Public Power Association, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Utilities Technology Council in a filing posted Monday in docket 18-295. The Wi-Fi Alliance and NCTA opposed the stay, as did Apple and other tech companies (see here). “All of EEI’s arguments -- those it is likely to make to the Court and on which its Petition is premised -- rest on the baseless assertion that harmful interference will occur,” the alliance said: Objections “amount to little more than disagreement -- without facts --with the Commission’s decision.” NCTA said the commission “carefully analyzed an extensive technical record and correctly determined that ‘fixed microwave links will have an insignificant chance of experiencing harmful interference from indoor low-power unlicensed operations.’”