Home Buyers Demand Wi-Fi, Group Tells FCC

Home builders care about Wi-Fi “because home buyers want connected homes,” representatives of Leading Builders of America said in a meeting with Chief Julius Knapp and others from the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology. The focus was the 6 GHz band, which the agency is examining allocating for unlicensed use, said the group, which earlier commented (see 1902150030) in docket 18-295. “Just as granite countertops went from optional to standard due to demand, the same thing is happening to wifi-enabled homes,” the group said Friday.