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¹ú²úÊÓƵ's Open Technology Institute filed an ex parte letter detailing meetings held with staff in the offices of Federal Communications Commission ("Commission") Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Geoffrey Starks regarding the 6 GHz band proceeding and opening it up for unlicensed use. In the meetings, Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Project at ¹ú²úÊÓƵ’s Open Technology Institute, 1) highlighted the importance of opening all 1200 MHz for unlicensed use for the future of Wi-Fi, the wireless ecosystem, and the economy; 2) urged the Commission to immediately adopt the 8 dBm/MHz PSD power limit it is considering rather than defer that decision; 3) expressed support for the Commission’s decision to authorize unlicensed access points to operate both outdoors and indoors in the U-NII-5 and U-NII-7 sub-bands, to be controlled by an AFC system, at the standard Part 15 power levels that are currently allowed in the 5 GHz band; 4) recommended a clarification that client device power levels for both low-power indoor (LPI) and standard power use are restricted to 6 dB lower than the maximum transmit power of the associated access point; and 5) expressed opposition to requests from broadcasters to exclude the top 80 megahertz of the band from LPI unlicensed use. .