The Electronic Communications Committee will do a “major...
The Electronic Communications Committee will do a “major study” on the future use of UHF frequencies with a focus on the 470-694 MHz band, the group responsible for harmonizing radio spectrum across Europe said in a release Friday (http://bit.ly/12Sb7i2). “The…
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study should consider the most effective spectrum management framework for” future use of this range of spectrum, it said. “The ECC wishes to look beyond a piecemeal approach (’salami-slicing') to the use of this prime range of spectrum, and to consider options for a more joined-up strategy, especially for the longer term and below 694 MHz,” said ECC Chairman Eric Fournier. “A particular challenge for us is that the optimum rate of evolution, as well as the ideal longer term equilibrium, is unlikely to be the same throughout Europe.” ECC created a task group to look into development of the 470-694 MHz band, the mandate from the European Commission to study the use of 700 MHz for mobile radio and the establishment of an EU policy for the UHF band as a whole. The task group is led by ECC Vice-Chairman Jaime Afonso, of Portuguese spectrum regulator ANACOM, it said. The ECC expects the task group to finish its work within a year.