WiFi NOW Criticizes European Regulator Decision on 6 GHz Band
WiFi NOW CEO & Chairman Claus Hetting slammed a recent opinion by the European Commission’s Radio Spectrum Policy Group that recommends using the upper 6 GHz band spectrum for licensed wide area coverage by carriers (see 2511170020). “Has the process of spectrum regulation in Europe finally lost its last semblance of legitimacy?” Hetting asked this week. “We can only speculate that the mobile industry knows very well that the upper 6 GHz band is largely useless for mobile -- and that the real tactic here is to keep the spectrum away from its rightful place, which is Wi-Fi.”
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Hetting slammed the EC for not making the consultation public. Large European broadband service providers, as well as utilities, “have forcefully voiced their support" for allocating the top of the 6 GHz band to Wi-Fi and “the overwhelming majority of responses likely favored Wi-Fi” in the band, he said.