Wi-Fi Alliance’s Senior Vice President of Marketing Kevin Robinson told RCR Wireless News that the Alliance is thrilled about the FCC’s decision to open 6 GHz for unlicensed Wi-Fi. According to him, the approval of Wi-Fi 6E is unprecedented, and it won’t be long before production of Wi-Fi 6 devices that can operate in the new, wider band ramps up.
“When Wi-Fi got started,” he explained, “almost all Wi-Fi at the time was operating in a very small piece of spectrum — about 60 megahertz of spectrum — was all that was effectively used. But now, we’re going from that 60 megahertz to 1,600 megahertz with this new allocation in 6 GHz.”
