The Open Spectrum Alliance is a coalition of companies, organizations, and individuals working to unlock the potential benefits of bandwidth for all.
Current methods of spectrum regulation are based upon the assumption of scarcity reflecting the technologies of the early 20th Century. "Smart" radio technologies support far more efficient and productive methods of spectrum management.
The Open Spectrum Alliance is united by the goal of realizing the potential social and economic benefits of this underutilized natural resource by promoting innovative public policies.
Press release | May 2010
Silver Jubilee of the rules that enabled Wi-Fi
On May 24, 2010 it will be exactly 25 years since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the regulator of the radio spectrum for public use in the USA, released the decision to permit unlicensed access to the radio spectrum for communications, provided the devices use “Spread Spectrum”.
That paved the way for the IEEE 802.11 committee to start developing “Wi-Fi” – an interoperability standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) – which encouraged regulators in other countries to adopt similar rules. Canada and the European countries agreed first, then dozens more governments allowed license-free use of the radio spectrum by WLANs.
Attached is our response to the European Commission's consultation which ended 7 May 2010.
The German national Radio had a report on the 800Mhz spectrum auction run by the Bundesnetzagentur including a short statement of Alexander List from Open Spectrum Alliance.
You can find the podcast here: http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2010/04/12/dlf_20100412_0545_0...
The attached file was submitted last night.
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative has published an analysis of the US National Broadband Plan.
The Open Spectrum Alliance has drafted a position paper for the EU Spectrum Summit in Brussels, March 22-23, 2010.
Open Spectrum Alliance has filed a
response to the RSPG's report on Cognitive Technologies.
Futurezone Article: Freie Frequenzen für ein freies Netz:
http://futurezone.orf.at/stories/1628079/
Programme description (in German): http://oe1.orf.at/programm/200909277101.html
Announcement in ORF ON Futurezone: http://futurezone.orf.at/tipps/stories/1628086/
From the EU websites:
Member States shall make the 880-915 MHz and 925-960 MHz frequency bands (the
900 MHz band) available for GSM and UMTS systems, as well as for other
terrestrial systems capable of providing electronic communications services that can
coexist with GSM systems, in accordance with technical implementing measures
adopted pursuant to Decision No 676/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 7 March 2002 on a regulatory framework for radio spectrum policy in the
European Community (Radio Spectrum Decision)*.
We have submitted a response to the RSPG's consultation on the coordination of EU spectrum interest:
http://rspg.groups.eu.int/_documents/consultations/comments_spectruminte...
On July 4, 2009, OSA submitted a response to the Consultation (http://www.ez.nl/dsresource?objectid=164918&type=PDF) Open this item to open the attachment with the response.
The Open Spectrum Alliance gave a response on the digital dividend.
Futurezone.orf.at reported about us! I want to thank the students of the FH Joanneum in Graz who took a loot of time to do background research on this topic.
Innovation
Recent technological innovations have proven to allow for more local and more efficient re-use of chunks of spectrum. “Smart” or so called “cognitive” radio technologies support the usage of ‘white spaces’ without danger of interference. The introduction of Wi-Fi (Wireless LAN, the 802.11 standard, in technical terms) has proven that many devices can efficiently re-use the same spectrum as long as the technology adheres to preset parameters of use (for example, relatively low transmission power, utilization of contention protocols).
