Breaking news: WiMAX admitted into IMT-2000 family

The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly (RA-07) meeting in Geneva agreed about an hour ago to include WiMAX in the IMT-2000 family, which includes the dominant 3G technologies, UMTS and CDMA-2000.

This is a major victory for the WiMAX camp, which has spend the past few years fighting to get access to spectrum, most notably in Europe the 2.5-2.69GHz band. The European Commission tried to get all EU regulators to agree to assign this band on a technology neutral basis, which would have potentially allowed WiMAX access to a band designated for the expansion of 3G technologies. The Commission couldn't persuade enough regulators to back them and <A href="javascript:showStory(216,1)" class='newslink'>gave up the fight</a> in March last year.

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