FCC Should Find Middle Ground on LTE-U, Say Broadcom, Google, HP, NCTA

Google, NCTA and a handful of Wi-Fi companies are urging the FCC to find a middle ground on LTE-unlicensed. The FCC could let the market take its course or impose command and control regulation, they said in a letter posted Thursday in docket 15-105. “Between these two extremes is a middle-ground path of establishing straightforward rules of device eligibility, encouraging industry to develop appropriate norms of conduct and mechanisms for managing the use of the commons, and then largely staying out of the way as self-regulation and innovation take hold.” This middle ground is “precisely the course the Commission took with respect to the unlicensed spectrum commons under Part 15 of its rules,” they said. Boingo Wireless, Broadcom, Hewlett-Packard and Ruckus Wireless also signed the filing.