Google Tells Wheeler, Other FCC Members It Seeks Action on 57-71 GHz Band

Google met with all five FCC commissioners, urging them to act on rules “to empower innovative uses in the high-frequency bands above 24 GHz” as part of its spectrum frontiers rulemaking. Google is particularly concerned about unlicensed use of the 57-71 GHz band, the company said. “We reiterated our arguments that, given present characteristics of useful field disturbance sensors, heavy constraints on their use at 57-64 GHz are no longer appropriate.” Google made the filing in docket 14-177 on the meetings that included Chairman Tom Wheeler.