Qualcomm Makes Clear Stance on 4.9 GHz Band
Qualcomm clarified its stance on the 4.9 GHz band, the topic of an FCC Further NPRM on which the company filed comments in April (see 2304140040). “Qualcomm reiterates that the 4.9 GHz band should be used for public safety purposes…
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primarily and any permitted secondary uses of the band must ensure public safety users have priority and preemption over such secondary uses,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 07-100: “The sidelink technology Qualcomm has discussed in this docket can operate in spectrum bands other than the 4.9 GHz bands (e.g., lower bands will have better propagation), and sidelink can operate in channel bandwidths as small as 5 MHz wide.” Qualcomm stressed it’s “not asking the FCC to allocate the 4.9 GHz band for exclusive use by sidelink.” Qualcomm said in the April filing sidelink is a technology that would “allow first responders to communicate directly with other public safety personnel and the public via voice, text, and video in all types of emergency situations, and wherever they are -- deep inside of buildings, during and after catastrophic weather events, and in remote regions of the country -- where mobile networks are unreachable or unavailable.”