Articles tagged with: 3G Americas and Aws

3G Americas Recommends Plan to Maximize Broadband Spectrum

Trade body, 3G Americas has published key recommendations for utilizing non-standard spectrum bands in a white paper that discusses the emerging challenges for spectrum stakeholders involving how to permit wider spectrum usage by operators using various broadband technologies and current spectrum allocations. These challenges are especially poignant in "fragmented" spectrum bands (which depart from globally or regionally harmonized bands), such as the AWS III band in the U.S., and in the potential for country specific allocations of the 2.6 GHz IMT band and "Digital Dividend" spectrum outside of the U.S.  more

Related Tags: radio-spectrum, imt, radio

Growing Support for GSM/HSPA in 1700/2100 MHz Band

The trade group, 3G Americas has expressed confidence in the growing ecosystem of leading wireless technology manufacturers that will support UMTS/HSPA for the 1700/2100 MHz spectrum band. This band is known in the USA as the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) frequency band. Not only is this band important in the USA, but there is great potential for the continued allocation of 1700/2100 MHz spectrum throughout the Americas, with several auctions scheduled in 2008 in other countries in the region.   more

Related Tags: mobile-wimax, 3gpp, advanced-wireless-services, long-term-evolution, USA