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- Telcos and Wi-Fi providers are lobbying European regulators over the upper 6 GHz band
- The EU’s Radio Spectrum Policy Group is consulting on the matter
- A draft opinion has been published, but a final opinion may still be months away
The discussion about whether to release the upper 6 GHz band for mobile networks, Wi-Fi service providers, or both has become an increasingly hot potato in Europe as regulatory decisions loom, spurring the respective sectors to overload on rhetoric as to why their claim for the spectrum should supersede others.
At stake are frequencies in the 6.425 GHz–7.125 GHz band, which was identified for mobile use by countries in EMEA, the Americas and the Asia Pacific at the ITU World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (WRC-23).
