ITU clears the way for WiMAX recognition

The WiMAX forum met with success in its battle to have WiMAX admitted to IMT-2000 at the ITU Working Party 8F meeting in Kyoto last week.

Despite attempts from some vendor quarters to delay the process, ITU-R WP8F approved a revision to ITU-R Recommendation M.1457 to include a new air interface, IMT-2000 OFDMA TDD WMAN (also know as IP-OFDMA). This clears the way for the ITU-R Study Group 8 (SG8) to consider approval of the revised recommendation to go for public enquiry in three weeks time.

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