NEWS: mobile telecommunications needs 800MHz of spectrum, and quickly

CTIA, the industry body running the San Diego, California, event, has laid its cards on the table - it reckons that mobile telecommunications needs 800MHz of spectrum, and quickly.

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John Navas
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"the CTIA is clear that newly identified spectrum should be paired up as quickly as possible, especially the chunk between 1755MHz and 1780MHz, which it has identified as a good place to start: "Such a pairing of spectrum bands would allow for a rapid auction of 50 megahertz of paired spectrum*".

Pairing up the spectrum, to provide one frequency for an uplink and another for down, is important for Frequency Division Duplexed systems such as UMTS and LTE, but it is an unnecessary encumbrance to Time Division based systems such as WiMAX. It could be argued that it's best to just sell of the spectrum and let the buyer match up pairs if they want to, but that wouldn't favour companies who have already invested millions in LTE deployments - and who happen to be members of the CTIA."

The FCC is looking for more spectrum for a variety of systems, not least for the use of UAV's and for the use of HAPS, perhaps they are considering HAPS as part of their options for providing broadband in low population areas. Proposals for the next World Radiocommunications Conference in January

2012 include:- "Regulatory measures to facilitate introduction of new aeronautical mobile (R) service (AM(R)S) systems in the bands 112-117.975 MHz, 960-1164 MHz and 5000-5030 MHz in accordance with Resolutions 413 (Rev.WRC-07), 417 (WRC-07) and 420 (WRC-07)" "to consider the results of ITU-R studies and spectrum identification forgateway links for high altitude platform stations (HAPS) in the range 5850-7075 MHz in order to support operations in the fixed and mobile services, in accordance with Resolution 734 (Rev.WRC-07)"
Reply to
LR

Or none, if iToys are throttled to their fair share.

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Not Me

The problem is that most, it not all, 3G and 3GS iPhones are still in contract. If AT&T decided to throttle then that's a change in the contract terms and subscribers with iPhones could cancel service with no ETF (unless there's already some clause in the contract that throttling by AT&T is permitted).

You can see why AT&T was in no hurry to enable MMS and why they're in no hurry to enable throttling, two features that have been available on other smart phones for years. Apple's been vilified, rather unfairly, over service and feature issues that are beyond their control. On the other hand,remember that AT&T was their second choice in networks for the iPhone and they probably had a good idea that the AT&T network wasn't ready for the volume of data the iPhone would generate, especially not the 3G network which is why they first came out with a non-3G model.

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SMS

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:36:57 -0700, SMS wrote in :

Total nonsense. As usual.

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John Navas

Still making friends, hey Navvy :) That Web site's still looking state of the art, by the way.

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Cyrus Afzali

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:16:58 -0400, Cyrus Afzali wrote in :

What's your website URL? ;)

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John Navas

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