UN Conference Agrees On Common Frequency For Next Gen Networks

The U.N.-hosted World Radiocommunications Conference in Geneva has agreed to “give mobile service providers access to bandwidth currently reserved for terrestrial television broadcasts, offering the promise of high-speed Internet access on-the-move anywhere in the world by 2015″ reports AP. The upshot is that carriers will be able to roll out networks a lot cheaper on that spectrum, although the broadcasters currently using it don’t want to share, claiming that there will be interference to TV signals. The US should start using the spectrum by 2009 with the upcoming spectrum auction, and strongly supported the move, arguing that a common approach was better than each country or region using different frequencies. The European broadcasters and the Russian military got some delay on the process and Europe, Africa, China, Russia and much of the Middle East will get access in 2015.

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