[IP] UK 5.8 GHz Band- spectrum licensing issues

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: John Wilson <johnresearch@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 01:09:56 +0000
To: dave@farber.net, ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: UK 5.8 GHz Band- spectrum licensing issues

[UK spectrum and digital divide issues: After a government review last year
for "License Exempt Use" of 2.4 and 5.8 Ghz Bands, and the subsequent
instituting of a Wireless Advisory Group to accelerate access and address
the "Broadband Britain" social policy agenda, the UK government have
recently said that 5.8 GHz Band C- ie for BFWA Broadband Fixed Wireless
Access- will now be a "light licensing" scenario. Compare the US 5.8 GHz
U-NII Band, enshrining "unlicensed" as a regulatory principle, and enabling
the take-off of WISPs especially in rural areas. - JW]


http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2131547,00.html
Wireless broadband threatened by licensing plan?10:27 Friday 7th March 2003
Graeme Wearden
Pressure from the Ministry of Defence means that 5.8GHz probably won't be
licence-exempt, which some claim will make it harder for wireless to close
the digital divide



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