Utility Groups Ask DC Circuit to Overturn FCC 6 GHz Order
The Utilities Technology Council, American Public Power Association and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Monday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn the FCC’s April order opening up the 6 GHz spectrum band for unlicensed…
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use. “Utilities and public safety entities use the 6 GHz band for mission-critical communications,” UTC said in a news release. “Despite numerous reports and submissions demonstrating the need for the FCC to act deliberately and carefully,” the FCC “approved an aggressive plan that will allow millions of new devices into the 6 GHz band without any proof or evidence that existing critical-infrastructure and public-safety communications will not be disrupted,” UTC said. Some other groups are also challenging the rules (see 2007240061).