Justifications for possible U.S.-only standard, other details, questioned The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) appears to have assigned a high priority to the issue of the use of unlicensed spectrum by licensed wireless services. Less than six weeks after the close of an initial comment period on the subject, OET has posed a number of supplemental questions to the LTE-U Forum (the Forum), an organization of proponents on the wireless side (it was formed by Verizon, along with Samsung, Qualcomm, Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson). As we reported in May, a battle has been brewing between the wireless and Wi-Fi industries over use of the newly-available or newly-expanded unlicensed spectrum in the 3.5 GHz and 5 GHz bands, respectively. The wireless folks are developing technologies – dubbed LTE-Unlicensed – for those bands. By placing an additional chip in cell phones, wireless carriers using LTE-Unlicensed can use unlicensed frequencies in addition to…
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