Next Administration Likely to Have to Resolve Car, Wi-Fi Dispute

Michael Calabrese was quoted in Bloomberg BNA about a dispute between the FCC and DOT over sharing the 5.9 Ghz spectrum band. 

If the DOT and FCC are able to reach a policy decision that sharing should be the path forward, however, the commission could vote on an initial framework order before both agency heads are expected to exit, said Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Program at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute. OTI is among the groups urging the FCC to open up the 5.9 Ghz spectrum band to sharing.

That framework will leave to the next administration decisions over technical details, he said.

“The sooner that basic decision is made, the sooner the two industries can focus their product development and testing,” said Calabrese, adding, “and, as the automakers keep saying, delay costs lives when it comes to deploying new safety technologies like V2V.”