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Articles tagged with: 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: digital-dividend, european-commission, viviane-reding
Three Bidders Win Addition Radio Spectrum in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's telecoms regulator has concluded an auction of radio spectrum that started earlier this week - stating that three mobile network operators have successfully bid for a total of 9.6 MHz of radio spectrum in the 1800 MHz frequency band at a total of upfront spectrum utilization fee of HK$46.1 million (US$5.95 million). more
Related Tags: ofta, china-mobile, smartone, hong-kong-telecommunications, gsm-license, Hong Kong
UK Planning a Shake-Up of Radio Spectrum
The UK government has published details of plans to revamp radio spectrum management which could resolve a long-running battle between the two original mobile networks. Vodafone and O2 have been fighting plans proposed back in 2007 by the telecoms regulator to take back some of their licensed radio spectrum and refarm it to the later networks. more
Related Tags: ofcom, 900mhz, 800mhz, vodafone, o2, telefonica-o2, UK
Hong Kong to Auction Spare 1800Mhz Radio Spectrum
Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) has issued invitations to the existing mobile network operators to participate in the auction of radio spectrum in the 1800 MHz band, which is scheduled to be held in June. more
Related Tags: office-of-the-telecommunications-authority, ofta, 1800mhz, ict, base-station, compete, base-stations, bandwidth, Hong Kong
Islamabad Court Confirms Regulator Can Seize Back Mobile License
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) says that the Islamabad high Court has upheld its decision to cancel the mobile operator license held by M/S Pakcom (Instaphone) for non-payment of license fees. more
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Nano changes rise to macro importance in a key electronics material
By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with colleagues in other federal labs and abroad, believe they have settled a long-standing debate over the source of the unique electronic properties of a material with potentially great importance for wireless communications. more
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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
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Averting radio spectrum saturation, opportunistically
Mobile users want better video calls, streaming television and faster downloads, placing more demands on the limited radio spectrum available to operators. Could handsets that intelligently sense their radio environment and opportunistically grab free bandwidth be a solution? more
Related Tags: rfid, 3g, base-station, oracle, intel, eu, ict, tim, rcom, mts, ovi, one-network, base-stations, network-management, bandwidth
China Telecom Profits Slump 96.3% on Write-Downs
China Telecom has reported a 96.3 percent slump in its full-year profits after making a RMB 24 billion (US$3.5 billion) write-down of its legacy XiaoLingTong wireless network which faces closure. Both China Telecom and China Unicom have been ordered to shut down their low-cost XiaoLingTong mobile telephone system in order to free up the radio spectrum for 3G services. The two companies have been given three years to shut down the networks. more
Related Tags: 3g, china-unicom, china-telecom, cdma, China
472 Million to receive Mobile TV by 2013
The number of people receiving Mobile TV will reach 472 million by 2013 according to an analysis by Cantab Wireless. Their report argues that subscriber growth is anticipated to be strongest in Asia at first, especially in Korea and Japan. From 2010 onwards, Europe and the USA are expected to catch up. Especially in Europe the shortage of radio spectrum before the analogue TV networks shutdown may delay the launch of mobile TV networks in some countries, most importantly in the UK. more
Related Tags: mobile-tv, eu, lte