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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.
Folks, this is last minute, but please take a look at the attached draft file, which I think is ready to go unless you have further changes to suggest. SE43 will meet 20-21 October and we should have input to that meeting if we want to be involved in the standards setting. Post your comments here, or to the email list, today if possible. Thanks. >BOB<
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.
We submitted our requests at the Austrian "Rat für Forschung und Entwicklung". This is a plattform which tries to engage the public into a dialoge. Topics are the further agenda for research and development. The Rat then makes recommendations to the government.
