{"id":5776,"date":"2021-05-20T10:21:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:11:21","slug":"faster-speeds-wider-coverage-with-canada-6ghz-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/faster-speeds-wider-coverage-with-canada-6ghz-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster Speeds, Wider Coverage With Canada 6GHz Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Canadian government is opening up the 6GHz band to radio frequencies, tripling the amount of Wi-Fi currently available and leading to wider coverage and faster speeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expanded spectrum will also make broadband more affordable for rural Canada after the Trudeau government took steps to improve internet access in rural Canada and minimize prices for Canadians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes ahead of the long-awaited 3,5000 spectrum auction in June, which aims to help Canadian telecoms companies expand their 5G coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 20 companies can apply.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-canada-spectrum\/canada-opens-6ghz-band-for-wi-fi-tripling-spectrum-access-idUSKCN2D02RG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is opening up the 6GHz band to radio frequencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5822,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}