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Articles tagged with: Digital Dividend
Alcatel-Lucent Demos LTE Running at 800Mhz in Europe
Alcatel-Lucent says that it has successfully completed the worldwide first LTE data call on the 800 MHz "European Digital Dividend" (EDD) spectrum band in a live network. The call was completed last month at Alcatel-Lucent's LTE end-to-end solutions center in Stuttgart, Germany, involved transmitting high-definition video streaming over the air using Alcatel-Lucent's commercial infrastructure platforms and prototype mobile devices. more
Related Tags: alcatel-lucent, 800mhz, lte, Germany
Vodafone Germany Testing Huawei Supplied LTE Equipment
Vodafone Germany and Huawei are to start joint test gauging the performance of LTE in the Digital Dividend radio spectrum - 790-862MHz. The test will be based on Huawei' s end-to-end solutions and both parties will form a joint working group for conducting the test. more
Related Tags: huawei, vodafone, lte, radio, Germany
Digital dividend: new airwaves, new potential and new challenges
Opinion by Matthew Howett and Charice Wang, analysts at Ovum
This is prime spectrum, well suited for bridging the digital divide
The digital dividend spectrum is a prime resource previously used by analogue
broadcasting, and is particularly suitable for delivery of high-bandwidth
services and indoor coverage. Because of the new services it makes possible, it
can have a positive impact on social and economic development. UK regulator
Ofcom estimated that the allocation of the digital dividend would provide
between €7.5 billion and €15 billion over 20 years for the UK economy alone,
with the European Commission (EC) estimating that a coordinated approach would
increase the potential impact of the digital dividend by an additional €20-50
billion between now and 2015.
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Related Tags: radio-spectrum
Consultation on Pan-European Policy for the Digital Dividend
The change from analogue to digital TV in Europe will free up radio frequencies for use by new services. The EU is well placed to benefit from this "digital dividend": Germany, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders) and major areas in Austria have already switched off analogue terrestrial TV transmissions, and other EU countries will follow by 2012 . On 12 June, the USA also switched to digital TV transmissions. more
Related Tags: radio-spectrum, european-commission, viviane-reding
GSMA Applauds Actions to Establish a Harmonised Approach to Spectrum Allocation
The GSM Association says that it has welcomed an initiative driven by the Finnish Ministry of Communications to develop a unified approach to the allocation of 'Digital Dividend' spectrum - the spectrum that will be freed up by the switchover from analogue to digital TV - in the Baltic Sea region. The Ministry recently hosted a Baltic Sea Summit on the digital dividend in Helsinki attended by government delegations from all the Baltic Sea states, namely Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden. more
Related Tags: gsm-association, gsm, helsinki
UK: a way out of the spectrum re-farm deadlock?
Opinion by Matthew Howett, senior analyst at Ovum
900MHz to be liberalised in the hands of the existing holders, but access to
other spectrum would initially be capped.
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Related Tags: vodafone, o2, ofcom, 800mhz, 900mhz, UK
Making Use of Europe's Digital Dividend now to Counter the Economic Downturn
Following a meeting with Dániel Pataki, Head of the Hungarian Regulatory Authority and Chairman of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) - an advisory group on radio spectrum set up by the Commission in 2002, The EU's Commissioner Reding has stressed the importance of the "digital dividend" for stimulating growth and competition on Europe's telecoms markets. more
Related Tags: european-commission, eu, itu, tim, ovi, iden, radio-spectrum, play
GSMA Urges Latin American Regulators to Relax radio Spectrum Limits
Tight spectrum caps in some Latin American countries are artificially curbing uptake and usage of broadband in the region, according to a study by consultancy Arthur D Little (ADL) for the GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry. The study found that rigid restrictions on the amount of spectrum available to mobile operators are undermining their ability to provide mobile broadband services that would enable millions of people to access the Internet, email and other online services via computers and handsets at high speeds in areas lacking DSL or cable broadband connections. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, t-mobile-usa, ict, itu, driving, lte, verizon-wireless, hspa, verizon, mobile-broadband, eu, analog, gsma, aws, 700mhz
France to Award Additional 3G Radio Spectrum
The French government has decided not to have another go at awarding a fourth conventional 3G license, and will instead split the block of frequencies into three lots of 5 megahertz, with one reserved for a new operator. more
Related Tags: 3g-license, lte, radio-spectrum, arcep, France
Crucial decisions on spectrum needed to secure Ireland's wireless future
Wireless will be of paramount importance to IrelandĂ's broadband future but key issues regarding spectrum must be resolved to gain the greatest public benefit says Analysys Mason, adding that due to the higher rate of wireless broadband used in Ireland, decisions on wireless spectrum will have a greater impact than in many other nations. more
Related Tags: wimax, rural, lte, mobile-broadband, eu, 900mhz, analysys-mason, Ireland