5.9 GHz Rules Should Protect Real-World Safety-Critical Systems, NCTA Says

FCC technical rules for 5.9 GHz should focus on protecting vehicle-to-everything and other safety-critical intelligent transportation system messages, NCTA said in an FCC filing posted Wednesday in docket 19-138. Don't "consider non-safety-critical ITS applications, or another round of promised future ITS applications that history suggests will never emerge,” the group said. “Static analyses based on hypothetical corner cases are not useful in assessing the real world impact of adjacent-band Wi-Fi.” Commissioners are expected to consider an order as early as October (see 2009090058).