Organizations Back 5G Automotive Association's 5.9 GHz Petition
The 5G Automotive Association is getting support for a June 2021 petition (see 2106030075) that asks the FCC to reduce by 20 dB the permitted level of unwanted emissions from the unlicensed services that share the 5.9 GHz band. The…
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5GAA has been at the FCC in recent months urging action on the petition to protect cellular vehicle-to-everything operations (see 2402090049). “Granting the Petition would provide the necessary protection for critical safety services while still providing for robust indoor unlicensed operations,” the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute said in a filing posted Thursday in docket 19-138. “Failure to grant the Petition, by contrast, would impact C-V2X safety communications,” the institute said. “As 5GAA’s Petition highlights, the unwanted emissions levels that the FCC adopted for unlicensed services that neighbor C-V2X in the 5.9 GHz spectrum band place C-V2X’s benefits at risk by subjecting the technology to harmful interference,” said the Wyoming Department of Transportation's filing said. “We support the 5GAA Petition and ask that the FCC promptly grant it,” said Spoke Safety, which is dedicated to protecting bicyclists using C-V2X.