A wide range of commercial and regulatory pressures is expected to converge as radios begin to "think" for themselves in frequencies now used for established services and the ITU is starting to study how this might affect the Radio Regulations.
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A month into America's spectrum sale of the century it's still rolling along but the fate of all the important national and regional licenses up for sale, is already decided. However because of the rules of the 700MHz auction the names of winning bidders will not be made public until all bidding activity has ceased on all of the 1,099 licenses on offer.
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The UK regulator intends to introduce recognised spectrum access (RSA) to allow public bodies to share, trade and release spectrum, and the military is preparing plans to begin releasing some of its holdings to the market this year. A system for sharing public spectrum could provide a template for the private sector as well, but major challenges remain, industry sources said.
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The UWB standard EN382065 has received final approval from the Radio Spectrum Committee and is in the process of being published by European standards body ETSI.
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It's the third spectrum auction to be held by the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) since it was set up in 2002. The frequency ranges 24.773 – 25.277 GHz paired with 25.781 – 26.285 GHz have been divided into 18 lots of 2 x 28 MHz.
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The aim of the new French frequency register is to make information about spectrum usage more widely and easily available to the public and industry.
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Ofcom's proposals for terrestrial High Definition Television (HDTV) have drawn criticism from trade bodies, broadcasters and manufacturers of broadcast equipment. In a recent consultation process several respondents have had harsh criticism of Ofcom's decision to auction off to the highest bidder the Digital Dividend, the spectrum freed up by the switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting, without reserving any for public service broadcasters (PSBs) to provide freeview HDTV.
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The theme of Commissioner Reding's speech to the Mobile World Congress was that Europe could be the world leader in the next phase of mobile development - the move to the mobile internet. She advised the mobile industry's biggest gathering so far this year not to concentrate all its efforts on winning new customers in the developing world, where growth rates are highest.
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The UK mobile industry is generally unhappy with Ofcom's design for flexible spectrum usage rights (SURs). The level of restriction to market-driven innovation caused by spectrum usage rights is, to a great extent, affected not only by the method of construction of technical conditions but also by the legal and policy regimes in which the technical conditions operate.
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Five passive bands were discussed during the WRC-07, said Jean Pla, frequency manager in the French Space Agency's Frequency Bureau. There were two main issues: sharing and unwanted emissions, he said during a recent ITU workshop on remote sensing in disaster management.
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There can be no doubt that demand for radio spectrum is increasing. Despite progress in making use of ever higher frequencies, supply of radio spectrum is now largely fixed. Furthermore, within the well-recognised 'sweet-spot' of the radio spectrum between approximately 300 and 5000 MHz where bandwidth and propagation are optimal for delivery of broadband and mobile wireless services, supply is now all but exhausted. The 'but' in this case being that a significant proportion of this sweet-spot spectrum is allocated to defence users and it is argued that they neither make optimal use of, nor necessarily need, all the spectrum they have.
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This is a major victory for the European Commission, which had supported the case, and Brussels says it confirms the need for the stronger provisions on spectrum liberalisation contained within the telecoms review package.
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