Tech Companies Dispute 6 GHz Interference Claims
Tech companies told the FCC a new study by utility FirstEnergy warning of interference risks to utilities and other incumbents in the 6 GHz band as more Wi-Fi users take advantage of the spectrum (see 2305100047), suffers from the same…
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flaws as a report the utility filed last year (see 2210130051). “Rather than conducting a large-scale probability analysis to test whether [radio local access networks] present a significant risk of harmful interference, FirstEnergy instead (1) cherry-picked a single [fixed service] site with two receivers, (2) purposefully selected only a set of consumer homes in the main beam of the link that it apparently believed would maximize the chance of producing its desired results, (3) placed RLAN access points in unrealistic locations within those homes, and (4) then forced multiple APs to operate constantly co-channel with the FS link rather than on any other available channels, as would be the case in the real world,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 18-295. The filing was signed by Amazon.com Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Qualcomm.