Geneva ITU meetings increase flexibility for mobile

Delegates have moved towards technology neutrality by admitting WiMAX into IMT-2000 and combining 3G and 4G allocations. However, agreement on the key agenda item, identifying spectrum for new mobile services, is no closer.

The agreement to include WiMAX in IMT-2000, which includes the dominant 3G technologies, came on 18 October at the ITU Radiocommunication Assembly (RA-07) which precedes WRC-07. This was a major victory for the WiMAX camp, which has spend the past few years fighting to get access to spectrum. Gaining the ITU's agreement is a considerable achievement for the proponents of WiMAX - notably Intel - because it has been done in only 10 months, an unusually tight timescale.

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