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FCC votes to open more WI-Fi spectrum to improve speeds

Today, FCC voted to open additional WI-FI spectrum for unlicensed indoor use, to help to improve speeds and reduce congestion on 5GHz Wi-Fi networks.

The new 5.9GHz spectrum was previously reserved for vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure communications. But now FCC has decided to offer them up to the public for use as Wi-Fi.

FCC commissioner Michael O’Rielly said: “Today we put to end two decades of waste and inefficient use of the valuable 5.9GHz band. He said that many existing Wi-Fi devices will be able to start using the new spectrum with only quick software upgrades.”

Now this is a good news for those who uses Wi-Fi, as now it will offer small increases to speeds and reliability once gadgets start to support it. 

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