The World Radio Conference meeting in Geneva (WRC-07) has reached its first significant agreement today, with delegates having decided to combine the identification of spectrum for IMT-Advanced and IMT-2000 into a single category, to be called just 'IMT'.
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There are only two players in the international marketplace at the moment, AeroMobile, which is already conducting a test run in Australia, and OnAir which will soon launch trials in Europe.
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This study was commissioned by the European Commission to examine whether spectrum could be used more effectively by controlling interference itself, rather than relying on the traditional method for achieving this: limiting the technical parameters of transmitters. The project, managed by Eurostrategies sprl and LS Telcom, has yet to come to final conclusions but initial findings suggest that this alternative approach has its limitations.
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As manufacturers of USB devices wait for the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to finalise a European standard, and the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) to solve the technical challenges related to the regulation of UWB technology, national administrations appear to be dragging their feet on implementing the EC UWB decision of February 2007.
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The consultancies looking at "collective use of spectrum" for the European Commission last year concluded that "most decisions on whether to designate spectrum for collective use will need to be made administratively". But they also noted that this is not a good solution, mainly because regulatory decision-making is neither transparent nor objective and harmonising the results of the decisions takes too long. Professor Martin Cave recently called the administrative approach to allocating licence-exempt spectrum "arbitrary and unsatisfactory". <a href="#notes"> (1)</a>
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France should use part of its digital dividend to help ensure that the entire population has mobile and fixed broadband Internet access, according to a new report from government-led body the Commission Consultative des Radiocommunications (CCR). To achieve this, the report says, telecoms operators will need access to 150 MHz of spectrum at frequencies lower than 1 GHz by the beginning of the next decade.
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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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On Monday 15 October Sweden switched off its analogue TV signal completely, bringing to an end a process which started two years ago. Two days later the UK began the switchover process, highlighting the large variations in timetables in EU countries.
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A report published this month and funded by Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile assesses the relative economic benefits of assigning most of the freed-up analogue TV frequencies to either mobile or TV. It says that mobile usage has direct economic benefits through services, revenues and product sales, as well as the indirect benefits like improved business efficiency; job creation; and using wireless broadband to bridge the digital divide.
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The auction, which has been put back eight days until January 24 to allow interested parties more time to submit their plans, is expected to attract bids from traditional telcos as well as others interested in offering mobile broadband services including Google.
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The failure of the European Radio Messaging System (ERMES) became a central plank in the argument for spectrum liberalisation. A 1990 Directive required member states to set aside the 169.4 to 169.8 MHz band to create a pan-European market for this second generation digital paging system but ERMES never took off, killed by the rapid rise of GSM and its SMS capabilities. By the time the ERMES Directive was repealed in 2005 the reserved spectrum was no longer being used in most European countries. (See <a href=http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/stn/spectrum/workshop_proceedings/Background_Papers_Final/Ewan%20Sutherland%20-%20_itu_spectrum_revised.pdf>Ewan Sutherland paper</a> p8-10)
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The study, by SCF Associates and commissioned by Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile, suggests that opening up more of the spectrum being released by analogue switchoff to mobile communications, rather than reserving large amounts for the TV industry, could boost Europe's GDP by 0.6% by 2020. In cash terms this percentage amounts to about €350 Billion, though SCF emphasise that this is a an estimate based on modelling techniques.
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The auction is planned in December this year to take account of any decisions made at the World Radio Conference (WRC '07) being held in November.
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We reveal details of the draft framework review proposals, including measures which would prevent member states uncompetitively assigning the whole digital dividend to broadcasters. We also get reaction to the other key idea: a European regulator with responsibility for cross-border wireless services.
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