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Telecommunications Victory for US: 700MHz allocated for mobile services
Telecommunications Victory for US: 700MHz allocated for mobile services | Victory for US: 700MHz allocated for mobile services |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Sunday, 18 November 2007 | |
  
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In the run up to WRC-07 the leader of the US delegation, Richard Russell, deputy director for technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said: "We believe fundamentally that by identifying 700MHz for IMT, everyone wins." Commenting on the outcome, he was reported as saying: "This conference has helped create a much larger market for wireless broadband technologies and services. Because we now have a very broad swath of spectrum available around the world both on a global and regional basis for wireless broadband technologies, the market for these technologies and services has been enhanced. There is much more certainty today … than there was before the conference started." However the US victory has not been outright. The band has been allocated for IMT in Region 2 - (North, Central and South Americas) and nine countries of Region 3 (major markets in Asia including China, India, South Korea and Japan). In Europe and other parts of the world the move was blocked and instead the band 790-862 MHz has been allocated to IMT services, but not until 2015.{moscomment} |
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