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Was this band used for anything else previously?

I hope other jurisdictions follow suit so hardware using it can be cheaper due to economies of scale. The segmentation of LoRA radios between US/EU is already pretty annoying and they're fairly niche.



Satellite communications, point-to-point microwave systems, and other similar things (high-data-rate, point-to-point communication) all operate near this band. However, there's plenty of spectrum and the use cases may be declining. There were also some radar systems in this band, but IIRC the useful new radar systems are higher-frequency (10's of GHz for resolution) or lower-frequency (10's-100's of MHz to have longer range).


From the press release:

> expand very low power device operations across all 1,200 megahertz of the 6 GHz band alongside other unlicensed and Wi-Fi-enabled devices.

Unless I am missing something, this means Wifi6 currently operates in this range.


6E does, not 6.




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