FCC Commissioner O'Rielly Remarks Before Wi-Fi Alliance Annual Member Meeting

Given its past success and future potential, what challenges do Wi-Fi and its advocates face? The “Bad” news is you need access to more spectrum and that’s not easy to accomplish. Wi-Fi engineers and innovators have sought much larger swaths of spectrum—channels of 160 megahertz or more—to achieve the vast improvements needed to truly realize and expand Wi-Fi capabilities. In examining some of the spectrum bands being bandied about and targeted for unlicensed use, I hope to leave you with some optimism: changes in FCC spectrum allocations may be coming to advance your companies’ great work and improve the global Wi-Fi experience.