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Office of Management and Budget

Spectrum usage tax

White House

Wi-Fi phones

WiMAX phones

VoIP mobiles could be target for new US spectrum tax

02 Mar, 2006

If government says it is advancing technology, there is always money in it – for them. So a $300m White House promise for research funds for the Federal Communications Commission...

EU 15

Hungary

Norway

Ofcom

Spectrum trading

Editorial: the genie is out of the bottle

01 Mar, 2006

A first is always newsworthy. The first motorised bed to break the speed limit is newsworthy but is it significant? Not really – it’s not going to change the face...

2.5-2.69 GHz

centre band

compromise

European Commission

Intel

RSC

Siemens

Sweden Germany

Vodafone

Wireless broadband

Regulators look set to accept compromise on 2.5 GHz

28 Feb, 2006

Never- that was when it was it going to be easy for the liberalisers to win the day on technological neutrality for 2.5-2.69GHz, as we said in our 2006 preview....

6-9GHz

CEPT

Low power applications

Nokia

TG3

WiMAX

Indecision forces UWB developers into technologically difficult territory

24 Feb, 2006

Efforts to harmonise the regulation of ultra wideband (UWB) radio devices in Europe hit a rocky patch at a meeting of the ECC’s CEPT Task Group 3 (TG3) in Copenhagen...

Cable and Wireless

Libera

Ofcom

Spectrum trading

Ofcom gives green light to EU’s first spectrum trade

24 Feb, 2006

Britain’s progress has been closely watched by other EU countries many of whom were opposed to trading when the UK became the first member state to formally adopt it as...

Louth

Ofcom

Spectrum trading

Transfer Notification Register

EU’s first spectrum trade is agreed

20 Feb, 2006

A company called Libera Plc is seeking to buy six 28 GHz fixed wireless access licences currently owned by Cable and Wireless. This is the first “pure spectrum” deal. Previous...

Cable and Wireless

Cave

Libera

Ofcom

Spectrum trading

First spectrum trade shows value of new policy says leading expert

20 Feb, 2006

The deal is the UK’s first ‘pure spectrum’ trade and Professor Cave of Warwick University Business School says it shows how trading can benefit the market.A company called Libera has...

DECT

mobile

Ofcom

Prime mobile spectrum to be auctioned in UK

17 Feb, 2006

The frequencies on offer - 1781.7-1785MHz paired with 1876.7-1880MHz - will be of particular value to mobile companies because they are within the range which can be used by existing...

CEPT

ECMA

Freescale

Low power applications

WiMedia

UWB standards torch passes to WiMedia Alliance

16 Feb, 2006

After three years of efforts by an IEEE task group to hammer out an Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) standard, the only agreement they were able to reach was to disband, by...

electricity

gas

Marcus

Spectrum liberalisation

Spectrum trading

spot market

Spot markets: a quantum leap in spectrum efficiency?

02 Feb, 2006

Naturally, a key input into mobile communications systems is spectrum and its efficient use. The laws of physics limit the amount of spectrum available for efficient mobile use and in...

analogue switch-off

BBC

broadcast spectrum

Broadcasting

EBU

European Commission

Laven

Regional Radiocommunication Conference

RRC

Broadcasters attack Commission’s spectrum trading plans

01 Feb, 2006

The European Commission’s call to introduce spectrum trading in TV and radio bands by 2010 has met a very sceptical response from broadcasters. ‘Could please somebody explain to me how...

business mobile radio

digital broadcasting

DVB-T

Federation of Communications Services

Ofcom

RRC-06

T-DAB

Business mobile radio users fear RRC-06 could cost them billions

30 Jan, 2006

UK banks, transport haulage companies and other organisations such as local authorities, schools and emergency services, for which spectrum use is essential even if only peripheral in their activities, are...

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VoIP mobiles could be target for new US spectrum tax

Editorial: the genie is out of the bottle

Regulators look set to accept compromise on 2.5 GHz

Indecision forces UWB developers into technologically difficult territory

Ofcom gives green light to EU’s first spectrum trade

EU’s first spectrum trade is agreed

First spectrum trade shows value of new policy says leading expert

Prime mobile spectrum to be auctioned in UK

UWB standards torch passes to WiMedia Alliance

Spot markets: a quantum leap in spectrum efficiency?

Broadcasters attack Commission’s spectrum trading plans

Business mobile radio users fear RRC-06 could cost them billions