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RRC-06

RRC-06 plan delivers the goods for broadcasting services

21 Jun, 2006

The results of the Regional Radio Conference of 2006 may look ‘promising’ but whether the compromise agreement for flexible use of frequency allocations for non-broadcast purposes goes far enough, remains...

intermodulation

Michael Whittaker

spectrum usage rights

SURs

United Kingdom

Will Ofcom’s spectrum usage rights deliver?

20 Jun, 2006

With the closure of its consultation this week, Ofcom edges a step closer to defining spectrum usage rights. Here Australia’s Michael Whittaker explains why he thinks the UK’s communications regulator...

802.11u

802.21

Cognitive Radio

Dynamic spectrum access

modulation schemes

SDR

Ubiquitous communications possible but not before 2020…

19 Jun, 2006

The “Utopian dream” of a fully fledged cognitive network may be possible within fifteen years but not before a complex jigsaw of technical, policy and legal challenges is pieced together.

GSM-R

Public sector spectrum

TETRA

Liberaliser offers limited flexibility in emergency band

16 Jun, 2006

Norway is inviting commercial applications for a TETRA licence which in most other European countries is allocated to the police or emergency services.

Broadcasting

ITU

RRC-06

switchoff

VHF

2015: RRC-06 sets date for all digital future

14 Jun, 2006

The Regional Radiocommunications Conference of 2006 is proving to be a sensitive and complex affair but PolicyTracker has learnt that 2015 is the expected date for analogue switch off across...

Low power applications

RFID

spectrum

Vivian Reding

Standards battle over RFID tags likely

13 Jun, 2006

Tumbling costs may have caused an explosion of Radio Frequency Identification tags in recent years, but problems with international compatibility, interference and privacy remain.

802.11i

China

IEEE

Unlicensed usage

WAPI

WLAN

Chinese authorities walk out of ballot resolution meeting

08 Jun, 2006

Tensions are mounting at the ballot resolution meeting for the existing international WLAN security standard 8802-11 which got underway in Prague this week.

3GPP

CEPT

ETSI

France

GSM

mobile

re-farming

Scrase

spectrum refarming

UMTS

France takes the lead in GSM re-farming

06 Jun, 2006

It is technically possible to use the GSM bands for 3G says the European regulators organisation, CEPT, but so far only France has agreed to do this and a consistent...

Broadcasting

mobile TV

RRC-06

technology enutrality

WiMAX

Sparks fly at RRC-06 over technology neutrality

06 Jun, 2006

One of the central policy objectives of the European Commission is said to be coming under pressure at the Regional Radio Conference in Geneva where now, in the third week,...

Broadcasting

Norges Televisjon

NTV

Telenor

TV2

Digital TV battle in Norway settled

05 Jun, 2006

After long and hard negotiations the concession to build Norway’s new digital television network has gone to NTV (Norges Televisjon), owned jointly by the three terrestrial channels.

802.11i

China

IEEE

Intel

ISO

Unlicensed usage

WAPI

June editorial: The first of many battles?

02 Jun, 2006

The June edition of PolicyTracker is now available for download and our themes this month are the WAPI standards dispute and the start of RRC-06.

DAB

L-band

Maastricht Special Arrangement

mobile

mobile TV

Ofcom

RSPG

S-DAB

Satellite

T-DAB

Rumbles of discontent as new occupants moved into L-band

02 Jun, 2006

Mobile TV is transforming spectrum planning in Europe as regulators seek to open up L-band, currently harmonised for terrestrial and satellite DAB.

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