Tuesday, September 4, 2012

EC Looks to Create Europe-Wide 5 GHz Unlicensed Frequency Band

The European Commission now is looking at ways to create a single band of shared non-licensed spectrum across the European Union, The new shared spectrum would support 
services at 5 GHz, in somewhat the same manner that Wi-Fi now is used by multiple suppliers. 

Though probably not a great candidate for mobile services, the proposed common new spectrum would be useful for mobile data offload and machine to machine services, for example. 

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