Bluetooth SIG Targets 6 GHz Frequency Band

[TheLostSwede]

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the trade association that oversees Bluetooth technology, today announced a new specification development project to define the operation of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) in additional unlicensed mid-band spectrum, including the 6 GHz frequency band. With over 5 billion products shipping each year, Bluetooth technology is the most widely deployed wireless standard in the world. A core reason for its unmatched adoption and success is the continual evolution of the technology in key areas, including higher data throughput, lower latency, and greater positioning accuracy. The new spectrum expansion project will help ensure that these Bluetooth performance enhancements can continue well into the future.

"Over the last twenty years, Bluetooth technology has made our lives more productive, safer, healthier, and joyful," said Mark Powell, CEO of the Bluetooth SIG. "The Bluetooth SIG community is constantly evolving the technology to meet ever expanding market demands for wireless communications. Expanding into the 6 GHz spectrum band will ensure the community can continue to make the enhancements necessary to pave the way for the next twenty years of Bluetooth innovation."




"The global allocation of additional spectrum for unlicensed use is vital to ensuring that wireless technologies can continue to meet growing connectivity demands," said Kevin Robinson, President and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance. "Designating 6 GHz for unlicensed use creates a valuable spectrum resource that is recognized globally for its ability to bring tremendous socioeconomic benefits. Wi-Fi Alliance looks forward to collaborating with the Bluetooth SIG to ensure our successful co-existence in the band."

Visit bluetooth.com/specifications-in-development for additional information on this new specification project. Employees of all Bluetooth SIG member companies are welcome to join the Higher Bands for Low Energy Subgroup within the Core Specification Working Group to participate.

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[Nuke Dukem]

13900KS be like: "6 GHz? Yo, dawg, this my turf!"

 

[JAB Creations]

6GHz, great, more burning people alive with microwave radiation.

"BUT! BUT! It's only a LITTLE poison!" - fascists.

It all adds up and then the criminals position themselves in positions of power because people actually believe that a station implies unquestionable crediability when in fact a person in place of a station automatically becomes criminal and loses said station when they commit crimes against people.

This isn't technology, it's weapons.

 

[USB-C Geek]

6GHz, great, more burning people alive with microwave radiation.

"BUT! BUT! It's only a LITTLE poison!" - fascists.

It all adds up and then the criminals position themselves in positions of power because people actually believe that a station implies unquestionable crediability when in fact a person in place of a station automatically becomes criminal and loses said station when they commit crimes against people.

This isn't technology, it's weapons.

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Dude, Bluetooth waves are non-ionizing, they literally cannot damage you. That is why we live in a world full of radio communication and there haven't been billions dying out. Your chart is incomplete and deceptive.

6GHz, great, more burning people alive with microwave radiation.

"BUT! BUT! It's only a LITTLE poison!" - fascists.

It all adds up and then the criminals position themselves in positions of power because people actually believe that a station implies unquestionable crediability when in fact a person in place of a station automatically becomes criminal and loses said station when they commit crimes against people.

This isn't technology, it's weapons.

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You don't need to blindly trust authority on this either. Just use the Planck's law to determine the amount of energy in the 6GHz wavelength is incredibly low. If you don't trust Planck you can even determine his constant yourself by conducting your own experiments.

 

[Mussels]

I'm all for bluetooth being fast, close range tech... but they need to stay away from wifi frequencies. BT is still the biggest cause of screwed up wifi of anything out there.


My favourite is game consoles smashing 2.4GHz to pieces then requiring it to work right for online gaming

Console has wifi + BT + proprietary controller tech, then you can have 4-8 controllers, mics, headsets etc

One console with 10 devices talking on 2.4GHz, all happily jamming each other 'mum the wifis slow'

6GHz, great, more burning people alive with microwave radiation.

"BUT! BUT! It's only a LITTLE poison!" - fascists.

It all adds up and then the criminals position themselves in positions of power because people actually believe that a station implies unquestionable crediability when in fact a person in place of a station automatically becomes criminal and loses said station when they commit crimes against people.

This isn't technology, it's weapons.

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How uh, how have you lasted this long in the tech world without the basic understanding of wireless technologies?
If my microwave - that runs on 2.4Ghz just like wifi and bluetooth - needs 1000W to still have my food come out frozen in the middle how do you expect mobile devices to do anything at all?

 

[Butrus]

LOL, I was going away with my WiFi away from the 5GHz band exactly because of nonsense like Bluetooth. I was really happy that 6GHz came to WiFi. And Bluetooth is again there to congest 6GHz again :-(.

EDIT: Sorry, I meant "from 2.4Ghz into 5GHz". But the message is clear.

 

[mplayerMuPDF]

LOL, I was going away with my WiFi away from the 5GHz band exactly because of nonsense like Bluetooth. I was really happy that 6GHz came to WiFi. And Bluetooth is again there to congest 6GHz again :-(.

Wanted to post the same. Just glad they are announcing it now so I don't have to waste any money on expensive 6E gear. I guess if enough new crap moves to 6 GHz and the masses go broke enough during the coming recession (or depression) and as a result stop buying gadgets and IoT garbage, 5 GHz may still be usable... It is crazy what the world is coming to.

 

[stimpy88]

Wouldn't it be nice if they addressed bandwidth and range... Nah, that sounds just too easy...

 

[mplayerMuPDF]

LOL, I was going away with my WiFi away from the 5GHz band exactly because of nonsense like Bluetooth. I was really happy that 6GHz came to WiFi. And Bluetooth is again there to congest 6GHz again :-(.

EDIT: Sorry, I meant "from 2.4Ghz into 5GHz". But the message is clear.

newer Bluetooth versions can already operate in the 5 GHz band. 6 GHz was the last band that was untouched.

 

[Butrus]

newer Bluetooth versions can already operate in the 5 GHz band. 6 GHz was the last band that was untouched.

Yeah, but nevertheless 2.4GHz is much more congested now. I personally think there should be an exclusive wifi band...

 

[mplayerMuPDF]

Yeah, but nevertheless 2.4GHz is much more congested now. I personally think there should be an exclusive wifi band...

I mean 5 GHz was an exclusive WiFi band but Bluetooth just encroaches on everything like a plague. But 5 GHz (and 6 GHz) will always be much better than 2.4 GHz for sure because they are simply far larger bands than 2.4 GHz. Also, many cheap IoT things only work on 2.4 GHz, just like for a long time cheap computers with low-end WiFi cards only supported 2.4 GHz.

6GHz, great, more burning people alive with microwave radiation.

"BUT! BUT! It's only a LITTLE poison!" - fascists.

Everything becomes a poison if the dose is large enough. That is widely a widely accepted scientific principle. A little bit of caffeine in a cup of tea or coffee is fine but if you take 10 caffeine tablets or something you will literally die. A little bit of salt (NaCl, also known as the scary sounding Sodium Chloride) is good for you but too much is harmful. You can even die from drinking too much water (without salt and other nutrients). Sure, for some things the "safe" dose is extremely low and those substances are generally called poisons.

 

[Stimer111]

6GHz, great, more burning people alive with microwave radiation.

"BUT! BUT! It's only a LITTLE poison!" - fascists.

It all adds up and then the criminals position themselves in positions of power because people actually believe that a station implies unquestionable crediability when in fact a person in place of a station automatically becomes criminal and loses said station when they commit crimes against people.

This isn't technology, it's weapons.

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iLLUMINATI MESSAGES EWERYWHERE BLUETOOTH FOR BETTER POSIOTIONING AND HEALTHIER LIFE...SATANIST SICKNESS

 

[mplayerMuPDF]

iLLUMINATI MESSAGES EWERYWHERE BLUETOOTH FOR BETTER POSIOTIONING AND HEALTHIER LIFE...SATANIST SICKNESS

If you are worried about location tracking, I would be more worried about WiFi with beam forming (ac+) and especially a lot more worried about 5G mmWave (which can locate you with centimeter/inch accuracy). And this does not have anything to do with illuminati or satanism, just with governments seeing an opportunity to conduct more surveillance when certain technology becomes available (like with the introduction of cell phones).

 

[Butrus]

I mean 5 GHz was an exclusive WiFi band but Bluetooth just encroaches on everything like a plague. But 5 GHz (and 6 GHz) will always be much better than 2.4 GHz for sure because they are simply far larger bands than 2.4 GHz. Also, many cheap IoT things only work on 2.4 GHz, just like for a long time cheap computers with low-end WiFi cards only supported 2.4 GHz.

Well, even 5 GHz was not WiFi exclusive, it is an ISM band. What I meant that I would wish we got a real WiFi exclusive band where no other usage whatsoever is allowed, with a general licence to the public.

A little bit of salt (NaCl, also known as the scary sounding Sodium Chloride) is good for you but too much is harmful.

That's actually not the problem with salt. Both, the appetite for salt and salt reuptake in the kidney is tightly regulated.

The real problem with salt is that most people in the western world are insulin resistent to a degree and this leads to high(er) insulin levels which a) boost your appetite for salt, b) cause the kidney to reuptake more salt than what is healthy. Eating a low-salt diet can mitigate this but can also be harmful if you eat loo little.

 

[Mussels]

Yeah, but nevertheless 2.4GHz is much more congested now. I personally think there should be an exclusive wifi band...

the problem is that countries decided on certain bands as open to everyone, and others as licenced to avoid things like a games console jamming phone signals or military radar or whatever

That means all our home tech toys have to play together and get along nicely in narrow strips of 'public' bands


At least these high frequencies have short range so they wont have a single faulty cordless phone jamming half a block any more

 

[mplayerMuPDF]

the problem is that countries decided on certain bands as open to everyone, and others as licenced to avoid things like a games console jamming phone signals or military radar or whatever

That means all our home tech toys have to play together and get along nicely in narrow strips of 'public' bands


At least these high frequencies have short range so they wont have a single faulty cordless phone jamming half a block any more

yep 5 GHz will always be much better than 2.4 GHz. That is one of the reasons I installed a Linux-friendly dual band AR9462 in my ProBook 645 G1 because the PAU-09 USB WiFi (which is dual band) I was using with it is getting pretty old now (got it in 2017) and I don't know how much longer it will last and my only other USB WiFi adapters (PAU05 and ALFA blah blah NHA) are 2.4 GHz only. When I replace the system in my specs at the end of this year its replacement will have an M.2 WiFi card slot so I can install an Intel 8265 and no longer have to use the 2.4 GHz only ALFA NHA with my main computer.