Ajit Pai, Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman, backed technology to let cars talk to everything. Pai allotted a proposal on Wednesday that would seek to donate fragments of the 5.9GHz spectrum band to Wi-Fi use that had not been licensed. Besides, the use of Qualcomm’s cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) procedure. Pai’s move is deliberated somewhat controversial since it goes against the US Department of Transportation’s approvals.
The Qualcomm tech allows vehicles to wirelessly interconnect to each other, with one another, and with traffic signs plus other wayside gear. The tech improves both safety and functionality. It is a forerunner of even more capabilities when the 5G network turns into a shared reality. The 75 MHz of the band in the 5.9GHz spectrum has been used entirely for Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC). DSRC is a transportation communication and safety tech. However, in his Wednesday speech, Pai said that the tech has been sluggish to advance and has not been extensively deployed. He was speaking at the New America’s Open Technology Institute and WIFI Forward event in DC. The event was held by Citizens Against Government Waste.
Pai said that the emergence of new transportation communication techs raises concerns on whether the valued band this public resource is being used. For unlicensed uses such as Wi-Fi, the FCC proposes to allocate the lower 45MHz of the spectrum. The automobile industry, which supports C-V2X tech, has a proposal of 20MHz. The remaining 10MHz is debated on whether to be allocated to C-V2X techs or the DSRC system. In May, the FCC said it’d take a look at this band of spectrum and consider whether it could be shared between the DSRC and other unlicensed users. Conversely, Pai said that extra testing could take too long. He said that it would carry out a multifaceted sharing system and lie unseeded for some years.
The whole block of 5.9GHz spectrum, according to the US Department of Transportation, should remain allotted to the big DSRC tech. A spokesman repeated that sentiment after Pai’s statement. DoT openly anticipates the need for keeping this spectrum provision to facilitate the future of safe, substantially automated exterior transport, he said. For firms like Qualcomm, the FCC’s offer is good news which has assisted progress in the C-V2X tech. The same applies to car companies like Audi, BMW, Tesla, Ford, and Daimler, which plan to use similar technology. The FCC is arranged to vote on the allocation suggestion at its December 12 meeting.
