Bluetooth Group Exploring Use of 6 GHz Band
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is looking at unlicensed spectrum within higher bands, including 6 GHz, the group told the FCC. “We have started this effort with the intention of utilizing a low-power, narrowband frequency hopper (with channel bandwidths…
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[less than] 20 MHz) that can use these bands effectively as possible while coexisting with other technologies using this spectrum,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 18-295. The SIG raised concerns about the FCC’s longstanding NPRM on very-low power (VLP) operations in 6 GHz. “Wideband regulations, as proposed in the current NPRM aren’t appropriate for Bluetooth (and other narrowband/low-power wireless) operations,” the group said. The Bluetooth proponents urged the FCC to complete work on the current NPRM then issue a second NPRM on rules for narrowband/VLP operations in the band.