Wi-Fi Alliance Says Axon Compromise Doesn't Eliminate Concerns
The Wi-Fi Alliance told the FCC that proposed modifications of a waiver request to market three investigative and surveillance devices operating at higher power levels than allowed in the 5 GHz band don’t adequately address interference concerns. Axon proposed in…
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July that its devices operate primarily using channels at the upper and lower edges of the U-NII-3 band, “avoiding operations in the more congested center of the band.” The compromise Axon suggests won't “cure the fundamental problem with its Request -- that Axon’s devices will block Wi-Fi access to U-NII-3 spectrum that is critical to meet Americans’ connectivity requirements,” the Alliance said in a filing not yet posted in docket 24-40: “As the record demonstrates, unlike Wi-Fi, Axon’s devices would not implement contention-based protocols intended to ensure equitable access among unlicensed devices to the U-NII-3 band. Axon’s ‘always-on’ protocol makes the failure to ‘listen-before-talk’ even worse.”