Category Archives: Spectrum

The end of UHF TV broadcasting draws near?

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Jens Zander

Even though there is no final date set, regulators continue “nibbeling” away at the European UHF TV broadcasting spectrum. Fewer viewers in northern Europe watch TV “on the air” and the “long tail” of programming preferences takes its toll. Broadcasting … Continue reading →

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5G – The future of Wireless

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Jens Zander

In these short interviews on Deutsche Welle, Rahim Tafazolli (University of  Surrey), Jens Zander (Wireless@KTH)  and Ted Rappaport (NYU WIRELESS) comment on challenges in wireless systems beyond 4G.

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DySPAN’12–to share or not

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Lei Shi

After a very long delay, this year’s DySPAN was finally held two weeks ago in Bellevue, near Seattle. It was still pretty much focused on the TV White Space (TVWS). As far as I can remember, there was only one … Continue reading →

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Swedish regulator PTS opens 1800 MHz mobile spectrum for license exempt

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Mats Nilson

  opened a small slot of paired spectrum for license free use starting Oct 1st this year. The frequency band 1783,1-1784,9/1878,1-1879,9 MHz is open for indoor GSM communication at a maximum downlink peak power of 100 mW EIRP. This step … Continue reading →

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Senseless efforts?

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Jens Zander

Listening to presentations at the recent Crowncom 2012 conference on “Cognitive Radio” gave some interesting insigths. On the positive note, there  now seems to be a much better understanding among industry, regulators and academia on what is the role of secondary spectrum … Continue reading →

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White space devices: will they come?

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Ki Won Sung

On 2nd May 2012, I was at BNetzA (German regulator) office in Mainz, Germany to attend the workshop on CR and SDR organized by COST-TERRA and ECC. The workshop was held to discuss efficient use of spectrum in general rather … Continue reading →

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IEEE WCNC’12-Active discussions on (expected) mobile data traffic avalanche

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Du Ho Kang

There was IEEE WCNC 2012 conference in Paris from 1st to 4th of April. The hot issue during the conference was how to provide 1000 times more capacity. There seemed a consensus on general approaches to solve this challenge: higher network … Continue reading →

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Light squared: We are not going away

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Syed Fahad Yunas

Seems like Light Squared are not backing away without a fight. Light Squared’s executive vice president for regulatory affairs and public policy told reporters that they are not going away and hoped that their wholesale partners hang on to them … Continue reading →

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India – Spectrum management, networks and technologies

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Jan Markendahl

  Travel report part three (of five) The mobile market in India is fragmented with a large number of operators and a multitude of regional licenses. The intense competition and very low prices has forced the operators to takeactions in order … Continue reading →

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Shortage of mobile spectrum – or is it just finding the right price?

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Jens Zander

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski again got on the data avalanche bandwagon in a recent Fortune interview  and declared a “major spectrum crisis”. In the figure to the left, the FCC has calculated the projected “spectrum deficit”. These figures of course … Continue reading →

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