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Apple Prefers More Narrow Approach on Wireless Item at WRC

Apple supports the more narrowly tailored View C on identifying additional frequency bands for international mobile telecommunications (IMT) over View A, supported by much of the wireless industry (see 2304240049), at the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference, per a filing posted…

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Friday in docket 16-185. Apple representatives met with FCC staff working on U.S. positions at the WRC. “View C offers appropriate refinements to the frequency bands for study for a future IMT agenda item by accounting for increasing deployments of ultrawideband technologies in 7.7-9.3 GHz,” Apple said. ”We also discussed Apple’s preference to focus on identifying bands primarily below 15 GHz for study for potential IMT identification at WRC-27.”