The USA’s decision to open up much of the 6 GHz band for unlicensed wireless broadband use sparked a wave of interest among regulators and service providers round the world. The WiFi Alliance developed an extension to its WiFi 6 standards, WiFi 6E, to address the expanded spectrum, and this will help ensure a broad base of equipment and devices to encourage support in other markets too. Brazil has decided to open the full 6 GHz band (5925-7124 MHz) for unlicensed access, and a group of other countries in the Americas are expected to make their own regulatory decisions this year too. The spectrum is not earmarked for WiFi, though that is the technology in pole position in unlicensed spectrum,…