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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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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The Conservative Party of Canada, which came to power in January 2006, is committed to smaller government.
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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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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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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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The agreement reached by the TG4 sub group of the European regulator's organisation, CEPT, is based on a French proposal to harmonise channels 62- 69: the upper part of the UHF band. TG4's finalised report sets out the principles under which the sub band could be implemented, with another study on the technical details to be completed for the group's next meeting in October. This further study will cover band plans, the location of the duplex centre gap and guard bands for FDD and TDD.
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The sub group, TG4, was set up after the European Commission asked CEPT to investigate the practicalities of creating such a band.
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The draft proposals were unveiled in June 2006. These called for a presumption of technology and service neutrality in the licensing of frequencies; common rules for secondary trading and most controversially, to consider the creation of a single European spectrum regulator.
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At the beginning of the year the European Commission asked the European regulators organisation, CEPT, to investigate the practicalities of harmonising a part of the digital dividend for non-broadcasting services.
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The new EU presidency may have spoken in the most diplomatic terms but the message is a strong rejection of the Commission's two most controversial announcements of recent months.
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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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We analyse why Europe is making progress on a regional level yet opposed to making a global mobile allocation in UHF at WRC-07.
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