Tech Company Offers Spectrum-Sharing Plan to Help Public Safety
Axon offers a compromise to protect Wi-Fi users.
Axon offers a compromise to protect Wi-Fi users.
WASHINGTON, July 9, 2024 – A wireless technology company is offering a spectrum-sharing compromise designed to provide law enforcement with new electronic tools to protect the public.
Axon Enterprises – which requested waivers from the Federal Communications Commission for a few wireless surveillance devices to operate in the popular Wi-Fi band – laid out a plan to avoid occupying busy channels, following pushback by an industry group and a public policy think tank.
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