UWB Interests Raise 6 GHz Concerns

Ultra Wide Band Alliance members met staff from the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology, including Chief Julius Knapp, on 6 GHz proceeding concerns. “Current proposed unlicensed broadband deployment, at the requested power levels, bandwidth, and [out-of-band emissions] would effectively render many UWB products, services and applications useless,” the alliance said, posted Friday in docket 17-183. “Consider mitigation solutions that will continue to allow for unlicensed UWB technologies to successfully coexist with incumbent users in the 6 GHz band and provide valuable functionality.” Comments were due Friday on an NPRM (see 1902150030). Representatives from Alteros, Bosch, DecaWave, iRobot and Zebra attended.