Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away

Re:Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away by granos on Thursday November 05, 2015 @01:49PM (#10515321)

At the same time (from the article):

47 U.S. Code § 333 - Willful or malicious interference

No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter or operated by the United States Government.

This puts some responsibility on the LTE operator to not stomp on WiFi.

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Re:Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away by scintill76 on Thursday November 05, 2015 @04:19PM (#10516179)

Also, "The FCC has already said that Section 333 applies to unlicensed spectrum by prohibiting Wi-Fi jamming." http://www.wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/my-in...

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Re:Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away by kec on Friday November 06, 2015 @10:54AM (#10520075)

While IANAL, the key word there seems to be "malicious". Merely operating in the same band doesn't show any malicious intent, even if it severely degrades performance for other devices in the band.

Jammers on the other hand do intrinsically show malicious intent because they operate in a way which serves no purpose other than denial of service for other local transmitters.

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