{"id":942184,"date":"2025-06-30T07:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T01:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942184"},"modified":"2025-06-30T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:10:45","slug":"dot-says-no-to-more-delicensing-of-6-ghz-may-raise-output-power-for-outdoor-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/dot-says-no-to-more-delicensing-of-6-ghz-may-raise-output-power-for-outdoor-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"DoT says no to more delicensing of 6 GHz; may raise output power for outdoor WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is not looking at delicensing more spectrum in the 6 GHz band that the tech industry has been demanding, as it believes enough airwaves have already been made available to take care of WiFi requirements. <\/p>\n<p>But DoT is open to a marginal increase in the transmit power requirements for outdoor WiFi devices, which can be done by using 6 Ghz airwaves, partially accepting the industry&#8217;s request, government officials aware of the matter told ET. But this too will be allowed only if such a change does not lead to interference with existing applications or satellite operations, particularly defence-related functions, they said, asking not to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is not looking at delicensing more spectrum in the 6 GHz band that the tech industry has been demanding, as it believes enough airwaves have already been made available to take care of WiFi requirements. But DoT is open to a marginal increase in the transmit power requirements for outdoor WiFi devices, which can be done by using 6 Ghz airwaves, partially accepting the industry&#8217;s request, government officials aware of the matter told ET. But this too will be allowed only if such a change does not lead to interference with existing applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}