Wednesday April 26th 2023
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5.9 GHz POTENTIAL UNLEASHED BY FCC
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he ITS sector has welcomed the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to grant a joint waiver request to deploy cellular Vehicle to Everything (C-V2X) technology in the upper 20 MHz part of the 5.9 GHz band. Various car manufacturers, US departments of transportation and ITS tech companies signed the request, and now it will
be easier for them to deploy C-V2X, which allows vehicles to communicate with one another and with road infrastructure. ITS America has long called for its widespread introduction as a way of reducing the 40,000 or so deaths each year on US roads. “All of our good technology is only going to be useful if we can deploy it,” says ITS America president and CEO Laura Chace (pictured).
The FCC decision “gives us new momentum”. Brad Stertz (above, left), Audi government affairs director, commented: “It’s been a journey of decades.” The FCC waiver “gives us a great deal of flexibility – we’re eager to get started,” he added. Blaine Leonard (above, right), transportation technology engineer at Utah DOT, says: “We’ve been waiting for 20
years: this is a beginning – not the beginning – but a beginning. We need to move forward together to deploy this tech.” There has been a ‘chicken-and-egg’ aspect to C-V2X deployment, with vehicle manufacturers and infrastructure operators both waiting for each other to some extent. Jim Misener, Qualcomm global V2X ecosystem lead, says: Continued on page 3
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