New Radio Spectrum Allocations Help to Bring Wireless Data Worldwide
Pierre De Vries, chief of Technology Incubation for Microsoft.
GENEVA, Switzerland -- July 8, 2003 -- The 2003 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-03) finished its nearly month-long session in Geneva, Switzerland on July 4, and took an enormous step forward in promoting unlicensed wireless broadband data services, such as Wi-Fi. At this year's WRC, the delegates harmonized pre-existing, regional allocations of unlicensed spectrum in the 5GHz band, and in the process created a greatly expanded, global allocation of 455 MHz of spectrum for use by unlicensed wireless networking devices.
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