It’s finally here!
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Wednesday (January 21, 2026) de-licensed half the spectrum in the 6 gigahertz (GHz) band, a heavily contested band of airwaves that tech firms have argued needs to be freed up for WiFi and other free-of-cost use cases, and telecom firms have fought to safeguard to be auctioned for use in future generations of mobile telephony.
Finally. Anyone knows what is the max allowed power level? Power Spectral Density of 11 dBm translates to what?
The power level that can cause cancer - 1 is the safe level 
India delicensed the lower 6 GHz band (5925-6425 MHz) for Wi-Fi, setting specific power levels:
Low Power Indoor (LPI) devices at 30 dBm (1 Watt) and Very Low Power Outdoor (VLP) at 14 dBm, to enable Wi-Fi 6E/7 while protecting critical services, balancing high-speed home use with limited outdoor reach.
finally time to upgrade from wifi 5 lessgoooo
Great news and hopefully gormint follows through with it and not backtrack due to greedy COAI cartel corporates pressure.
I’m going to wait for WiFi-8 to become mainstream - my WiFi-5 and 6/6e suffice for now.
How much better (or worse) is the performance in this band?
6GHz band is mainly for bandwidth increase at the cost of serious reduction in range. Because its range is even lesser than 5GHz so much less chances of interference even if neighbours are also using 6GHz band routers. Within same room it should be possible to easily achieve 1gbps+ avg real world speeds over wifi.
This is a sign to get off my a$$ and setup the new Unifi hardware ( 2 Express 7 ) 
How long before Ubiquiti enables it too?
6Ghz enables triband/quadband Wi-Fi, for near-wired speeds at close range— a viable wireless alternative for the wealthy.
But I will take Wired over Wi-Fi on any day!
Hopefully, with this, I can at least get older Wi-Fi gear for cheap.
Well done to the engineers who pushed for this!
6Ghz works in India right now if you set Ubiquiti Region to US. Just that client side firmware updates are needed to enable 6Ghz
I’ve raised a ticket with Ubiquiti. They said they’ve notified the R&D team. Asked for an ETA. Lets see.
Yes I’d read client side issue. with region being unlocked in AP atleast one problem will be resolved.
Make sure you tell them the power limits regarding spectral density.
What’s that. I’m sure they’ll figure that out without my help 
MLO is great. So 6ghz is worth it specially if you can mesh them wirelessly.
Also wifi 7 on 5ghz is improved a lot as well due to 4K QAM.
US region on unifi and macbook. Been using 6ghz for quite sometime now.
Only issue is mobile devices for now. Which would be solved fast now.
You changed region in Macbook too?
Yep. Also its not Indian unit.
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