White House Shouldn’t Tamper With Move to DSRC, Broad Coalition Says

Michael Calabrese was quoted in Communications Daily about the move to DSRC: 

“The auto industry is using safety as cover to grab a free spectrum windfall unrelated to safety,” said Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Program at New America. “Their letter ignores the fact that this unused band is big enough to deploy, and protect, both crash avoidance safety applications and next generation Wi-Fi that can enable faster and more affordable wireless Internet access in classrooms, public places and the connected home. Regulators in Europe have already decided that auto safety applica­tions require at most 20 or 30 megahertz of the 75 megahertz of spectrum allocated here in the U.S. at 5.9 GHz.” The White House should force DOT to work with FCC to share the band between DSRC and broad­band, he said.