When EE's network launched, rivals questioned whether the spectrum band that it was using - 1800MHz - would provide good indoor coverage.
The industry spent much of that time fighting over a plan to move FM and AM to a new spectrum band to accommodate digital.
Verizon, the company that first differentiated itself on network quality, is selling off low band spectrum and acquiring high band spectrum.
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The focus for network operators these days is on getting their hands on higher band spectrum.
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The KTS device will operate in conjunction with the Spectrum Bridge TV band database.
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The service will run on its 1800MHz spectrum, a band not owned by either O2 or Vodafone.
According to the cognocenti the GPS interference associated with the L-band spectrum can easily be rectified using available technology.
The DoJ is encouraging the FCC to ensure that a majority of the spectrum being recovered from over-the-air television broadcasters in the 600 MHz. bands go to the two carriers with the largest swathes of upper band spectrum.
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There have been a few anecdotal concerns raised over the last several weeks that LightSquared's proposed LTE network -- which would repurpose L-band spectrum formerly used for satellite -- is too close to the spectrum used by the Global Positioning System, leading to unintentional jamming when the towers overpower the much weaker GPS signals.
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In late June, Verizon Wireless announced an agreement with a subsidiary of T-Mobile USA Inc. to exchange spectrum in the AWS band in specific markets to meet LTE capacity needs and enable LTE expansion.
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Wireless broadband company Clearwire (nasdaq: CLWR - news - people ) already has quite a bit of spectrum in a higher band, but might bid to make itself a more national player.
BusinessWeek is reporting that a couple of sources have relayed that Apple is contemplating a bid in next year's FCC auction for the coveted 700MHz band, spectrum being freed by the move from analog to digital television.
The Commission proposed to make up to 195 megahertz of additional spectrum in the 5 GHz band (a 35% increase) available to unlicensed wireless devices.
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The iPhone 5 is the first of Apple's handsets to support 4G, but it has been optimised for just three spectrum bands - the 1800MHz band, which EE has been allowed to use for 4G services, the 850MHz, which doesn't work in the UK, and the 2.1GHz band, which currently only supports 3G services.
Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices today operate in 555 megahertz of spectrum in the 5 GHz band, and are used for short range, high speed wireless connections including Wi-Fi enabled local area networks and fixed outdoor broadband transceivers used by wireless Internet service providers to connect smart phones, tablets and laptops to the broadband network.
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Any owner will probably have to spend billions more to arrange of swap for spectrum further away from the GPS band.
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The company also recently resolved potential interference concerns with XM Sirius satellite radio that have kept it from making use of additional spectrum it held in the WCS band.
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Three's chief executive Dave Dyson argues that with enough spectrum, such as the 800Mhz band that is being auctioned next year, the firm can go a long way towards solving the UK's notspots.
It arises from light waves in the visible band of the electromagnetic spectrum, the segment with wavelengths of 400 billionths of a metre at the blue end to 700 billionths at the red.
Between them, Sprint and Nextel own nearly all the spectrum licences for the unused 2.5GHz frequency band.
If the bill passes, this will leave both T-Mobile and Sprint out of the 700-MHz band, but the small amount of spectrum that makes up the D Block would not have been enough to serve their customers.
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His venture began in a Jamaican restaurant in 1990 when he jotted down on a napkin plans for informing Africans about AIDS. The Ethiopian-born lawyer and son of a diplomat then set out for a conference in Torremolinos, Spain, where he convinced 127 countries to grant him 25 MHz of the L-band, a slice of the 1000 MHz spectrum.
He then went to a conference in Torremolinos, Spain, where he convinced 127 countries to grant him 25 MHz of the L-band, a slice of the 1000-MHz spectrum.
The best spectrum for wireless broadband today was auctioned in 2008 in the 700 MHz band.
Significant progress was recently made on this front with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's (China's telecom regulator), announced plans to release the entire 190MHz of their 2.5GHz spectrum for TDD-LTE deployments in China and their adoption of the same Band 41 format advocated by Clearwire and other GTI members around the globe including Softbank Mobile (Softbank).
The spectrum in question is for basic one-way paging which is called narrow-band paging.
The deal is unique in that the spectrum is currently reserved for satellite radio, and the reallocation would mark the first of its kind within the WCS band.
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Basically, these guys just got regulatory approval last week to buy satellite operator SkyTerra, combining about 23MHz of spectrum through slivers of ownership in the 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz terrestrial bands with 10MHz of L-band satellite space.
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