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ISED opening up 6 GHz band for WiFi

News | 11/19/2020 5:01 pm EST
Former Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains at an announcement in December 2017./ Photo by Andrew Meade.

The federal government has launched a consultation on a proposal to open up the 6 GHz spectrum band for WiFi use, a move it says would triple the amount of licence-exempt spectrum available for WiFi. 

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