Tech Companies Speak with FCC Engineers on 60 GHz Proposal

Intel, Meta and Qualcomm representatives met virtually with staff from the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology on the proposal for the 60 GHz band (see 2206010046). The plan “divides the 57-64 GHz band into three segments to allow for 2 GHz, 4.5 GHz and 7 GHz radars that generally map to the channels in the IEEE 802.11ad/ay standards,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 21-264: “It allows high-powered, unrestricted frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar operations in the lowermost 2 GHz, equal access by radars and communications in the middle of the band, and continued radar operations across the entire 7 GHz band by the current Google Soli product.” The band was the topic of an FCC NPRM last summer (see 2107130066).