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Spectrum Auction Favours Public Safety
News Broadcast communications company Arqiva has won two bands of spectrum in an Ofcom auction, fending off competition from the likes of T-Mobile and Motorola. The spectrum, covering 412-414 MHz paired with 422-424 MHz, will be used to enhance public...
[October 9, 2006, 16:30]
Spectrum Auction Could Mean Cheaper Mobile Calls
News Ofcom is planning to auction off another slice of the UK's radio spectrum. The communications regulator announced last week that it will award between five and ten licences to operate in the 1781.7MHz-1785MHz and 1876.7MHz-1880MHz spectrum bands.
[August 1, 2005, 13:55]
Spectrum Auction May Kick-start Mobile TV
News A valuable chunk of the UK's radio spectrum will be auctioned off early next year, a move which could speed up the rollout of mobile television services. Communications regulator Ofcom announced on Friday that 40MHz of spectrum, between 1452MHz and...
[April 3, 2006, 15:50]
Spectrum Shaping For Interference Management In Cognitive Radio Networks
White Papers Most dynamic spectrum access research centers on determining the set of frequencies being used by spectrum license holders, taking its converse, and from what remains selecting the optimal subset of spectrum.
[April 13, 2007, 0:00]
Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products Revamps System For Worldwide Uniformity And Growth
White Papers Founded in 1971 as a fine chemical manufacturer, Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products, a division of Spectrum Chemical Mfg. Corp.has grown into a customer-focused global supplier of high quality chemicals, laboratory supplies, and equipment.
[June 30, 2007, 0:00]
Google To Bid For US Spectrum
Blog Formerly used for UHF TV signals, the spectrum - about 36MHz worth - is the last bit of significant wireless real estate to become available in the US. Enter Google, which is concerned that the spectrum will be snapped up by one of the existing...
[July 20, 2007, 16:18]
Google Tight-lipped On UK Spectrum Bid
News Google has refused to comment on speculation that it might bid for radio spectrum in the UK, after Ofcom announced plans to auction radio frequencies as part of the "digital dividend". The term "digital dividend" refers to the freeing up of radio...
[December 14, 2007, 15:16]
Relief Over Radio Mic Spectrum
Blog That switchover means a whole lot of spectrum will go up for auction, a process that generally favours the rich. So the new options look a bit like this: a) the spectrum could still go up for auction, but bidders would have to keep using it for...
[June 21, 2007, 16:16]
Technical Analysis And Position Paper On The Regulatory Issues Between Licensed And Unlicensed Spectrum
White Papers The possibility of licensed use of unlicensed spectrum raises many questions in terms of how much spectrum would be made available for this type of use and what wireless technologies would be used. Certainly, the tremendous success of the CMRS...
[March 15, 2005, 23:00]
Overthrow The State With A ZX Spectrum
Blog They did this with virtually no resources - a modified portable black and white TV set, a ZX Spectrum, and a homebrew radio transmitter that put out not much more power than a walkie-talkie. The next bit is to feed the timing info to the Spectrum...
[April 23, 2007, 0:17]
RF Spectrum Use In WiMAX
White Papers This paper discusses implementation of IEEE 802.16a/d/e WirelessMAN (broadband wireless access), also referred to as WiMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access), in terms of frequency spectrum.
[January 16, 2005, 23:00]
DIMSUMNet: New Directions In Wireless Networking Using Coordinated Dynamic Spectrum Access
White Papers Recent advances in Software Defined Radio (SDR), wide band spectrum sensing, and environment aware real-time spectrum allocation show promise of enabling the new paradigm of Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) networks.
[December 12, 2006, 23:00]
Dynamic Spectrum Access Could Revolutionise Comms
News Ofcom has published its second annual report looking into future technologies that may enable a more efficient use of radio spectrum. An emerging technology called dynamic spectrum access (DSA) is one option that the telecommunications regulator...
[November 14, 2006, 16:02]
Mutual Interference In OFDM-Based Spectrum Pooling Systems
White Papers Public mobile radio spectrum has become a scarce resource while wide spectral ranges are only rarely used. Here, a new strategy called spectrum pooling is considered. Unfortunately, using OFDM modulation in a spectrum pooling system has some...
[November 1, 2004, 23:00]
Ofcom Consults On London 2012 Spectrum
News Ofcom has published a consultation document on the spectrum requirements for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The consultation is seeking to identify what applications might need spectrum and whether they could more efficiently use what the regulator...
[December 3, 2007, 12:23]
Broadcasters Revolt Against Spectrum Charges
News UK broadcasters are fighting a government-commissioned review into the radio communications spectrum whose recommendations could free up more space for innovative mobile services. Representatives from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and S4C told the Joint...
[June 19, 2002, 17:27]
Ofcom Confirms 4G Spectrum Auction
News Ofcom has confirmed the UK's single largest-ever release of spectrum will take place this summer via auction. The 205MHz of spectrum is in the 2010-2025MHz and 2500-2690MHz bands — commonly known as the 2.6GHz spectrum — and is ideally suited for...
[April 7, 2008, 11:59]
Military Spectrum Eyes Civvy Street
News Large swathes of radio spectrum bandwidth currently managed by the military and other key services should be opened up to other departments and even the private sector, according to the Bandsharing Forum.
[September 18, 2006, 17:20]
RF Spectrum Utilization In WiMAX
White Papers This paper discusses the implementation of IEEE 802.16a/d/e WirelessMAN (broadband wireless access), also referred to as WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), in terms of frequency spectrum.
[November 30, 2004, 23:00]
No 3G Spectrum Trading Before 2006 - Government
News The government is proposing that trading of 3G spectrum should not be allowed until at least the end of 2005, despite the financial difficulties facing some 3G licence-holders. In a consultation document called Implementing Spectrum Trading...
[July 15, 2002, 16:15]
