{"id":97132,"date":"2019-07-24T01:09:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T01:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/07\/23\/apple-other-tech-firms-petition-fcc-for-short-range-6ghz-wi-fi-tethering"},"modified":"2019-07-24T01:09:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T01:09:41","slug":"apple-other-tech-firms-petition-fcc-for-short-range-6ghz-wi-fi-tethering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/24\/apple-other-tech-firms-petition-fcc-for-short-range-6ghz-wi-fi-tethering\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple, other tech firms petition FCC for short-range 6GHz Wi-Fi tethering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- font size selector, BEGIN --> <span class=\"cfix\">&nbsp;<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"gray small byline\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#8ffde9e6e1e8eefccfe8e2eee6e3a1ece0e2\">Roger Fingas<\/a> <br \/><span class=\"gray\">Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 06:09 pm PT (09:09 pm ET)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span><span class=\"article-leader\">Apple is among several major U.S. tech firms petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to approve a limited form of 6-gigahertz Wi-Fi, spectrum also in demand with the cellular and utility industries.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"article-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apple-other-tech-firms-petition-fcc-for-short-range-6ghz-wi-fi-tethering.jpg\" alt height=\"375\" class=\"lazy\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apple-other-tech-firms-petition-fcc-for-short-range-6ghz-wi-fi-tethering-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apple-other-tech-firms-petition-fcc-for-short-range-6ghz-wi-fi-tethering-1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"minor2 small gray\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Other parties in the petition include Broadcom, Marvell, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, HP, Qualcomm, and Intel, according to a recent filing <a href=\"https:\/\/wifinowevents.com\/news-and-blog\/tech-giants-pitch-very-low-power-6-ghz-wi-fi-to-the-fcc\/\">shared<\/a> by <em>Wi-Fi Now<\/em>. While the FCC previously greenlit the 6-gigahertz band for unlicensed use, the cellular industry has argued that at least a portion of that spectrum should remain licensed for the sake of 5G. Utilities, meanwhile, sometimes employ 6-gigahertz antennas for communications backhaul.<\/p>\n<p>Apple and peers are requesting short-range, Very Low Power (VLP) transmissions over the spectrum without any other restriction \u2014 for instance delivering 2-gigabit bandwidth at a range of 3 meters (9.8 feet). 5G is once again cited as a reason, in this case because devices like laptops and AR\/VR headsets will need high-speed tethering to exploit 5G connections.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is widely believed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/06\/12\/apple-has-been-working-on-ar-glasses-for-years-and-ios-13-is-only-the-latest-sign\">developing an AR headset<\/a>, the first iteration of which could ship <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/03\/08\/apples-ar-glasses-arriving-in-2020-iphone-will-do-most-of-the-work\">as soon as 2020<\/a>. It may be mostly reliant on a paired iPhone, not just for internet access but some processing tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Even without an AR product, Mac and iPad owners will naturally want the option of full-speed 5G when tethering to future iPhones. The <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/19\/07\/10\/2020-iphone-to-reduce-truedepth-notch-full-screen-display-rumored-for-2021\">first 5G-capable iPhones<\/a> are expected in the fall of 2020, using Qualcomm modems.<\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Roger Fingas Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 06:09 pm PT (09:09 pm ET) Apple is among several major U.S. tech firms petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to approve a limited form of 6-gigahertz Wi-Fi, spectrum also in demand with the cellular and utility industries. Other parties in the petition include Broadcom, Marvell, Google, Microsoft, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}