Friday, June 29, 2007

Special meeting called over WiMAX/IMT-2000

The battle to get WiMAX included as a part of the IMT-2000 family took an unexpected turn at the ITU-R Study Group 8 meeting in Geneva on June 25 and 26.

Following the Kyoto meeting of ITU-R working party 8F in Kyoto a few weeks earlier the WiMAX forum appeared to have won out in its efforts to change ITU-R Recommendation M.1457 to include a new air interface, IMT-2000 OFDMA TDD WMAN (also know as IP-OFDMA).

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Ofcom bows to pressure over wireless mics

The UK regulator has watered down plans to apply market principles to spectrum for wireless mics but PMSE users say they still need more details.

Ofcom's plans for re-using the frequencies released by analogue TV switch off, published in December 2006 were condemned by the wireless microphones industry as threatening the survival of the UK entertainment industry.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Canada makes spectrum liberalisation priority for 2007

The Canadian government has asked the architect of UK spectrum liberalisation, Professor Martin Cave, to advise them on the introduction of spectrum trading.

The Conservative Party of Canada, which came to power in January 2006, is committed to smaller government.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

And now the implementation…

The Commission's harmonisation of frequencies for mobile satellite services was warmly welcomed by operators. But how should the licences be awarded, how can national approaches be co-ordinated and can the EU keep to the proposed timetable?

The question of selection and authorisation of operators licensed to provide EU-wide mobile satellite services (MSS), and specifically mobile television services, remains a vexed one following a recently-completed, two-month consultation process.

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Monday, June 25, 2007

Manufacturer calls for UHF for home networking

HDTV means the existing unlicensed bands will soon run out of capacity says Philips but not all regulators agree.

Consumer electronics giant Philips has told UK regulator Ofcom that additional spectrum should be reserved for low power unlicensed applications such as in-home multimedia distribution and wireless LAN (WLAN) networking. In its response to Ofcom's consultation on the digital dividend review, the company argues that 'there is a definite need for augmenting the use of the crowded Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) bands with additional UHF spectrum'.

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Opinion: the nine regimes of spectrum management

Spectrum management is more complex than usually imagined, argues Gerard Pogorel. There are nine possible regimes, not just command and control, market or commons, and it is more productive to think of wireless clusters rather than individual technologies

A spectrum management regime comprises four dimensions that have to be successively analysed in what is a logical order, although iterations might be implied. The concepts and alternative approaches must be explored at the following levels:

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Consultation: Programme-making and special events: future spectrum access

The UK regulator is putting forward new proposals for the long-term supply of radio spectrum for users of wireless microphones and similar equipment. These include awarding digital interleaved spectrum by beauty contest rather than auction - the means proposed in last year's Digital Dividend Review document.

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