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“FIRST OF ITS KIND” study will inform a potentially more suitable approach to predict radio noise levels, a study by a European regulator said.
November 3, 2024

Creating a model validated with existing and new measurements will — for the first time — relate the compatibility studies in the world of spectrum management to the emission limits in the world of electromagnetic compatibility, a propagation expert in the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure in the Netherlands, said separately.  
AIR CARGO-TONNE and passenger kilometres continued fast-paced growth, remaining at all-time highs for demand: IATA.
October 31, 2024

Significant airline investment must be matched by “equally active political vision” and action to ensure efficient and “sufficient airport and air traffic management capacity,” the IATA director-general said.  
CONSIDER DEVELOPING a strategic plan for UWB, a standards development organization suggested to a European regulator citing exponential growth, and features in the next generation of technology.
October 31, 2024

Improved link budget, sensing, presence detection, environment mapping, high-integrity ranging, inter-radio-service coexistence, support for ultra-low power, low latency streaming and high-def audio. 
AVAILABILITY OF “ENTIRE 6 GHz band for license-exempt use will create economies of scale,” produce a robust gear market, and deliver sought-after social benefits, a standards development organization will tell a European regulator, according to text for approval Oct. 31.
October 30, 2024

5925 to 7125 MHz
FINAL MEASURE sets out certification requirements for licence-exempt RLAN devices operating in the 6 GHz band, an update to international partners Oct. 29 said.
October 30, 2024

5925 to 7125 MHz
SHORTFALLS IN JUSTIFICATION outlined in descriptions of WRC-31 bids to extend the international table of allocations, on proposed measures on wireless power transfer, and for a revisit of WRC-15 action to add constraints on certain space-based 10 GHz radar uses, an early readout showed.
October 29, 2024

Placeholders were outlined for two, possibly three additional WRC-31 agenda items, and two future preliminary WRC-34 agenda items.  The impulses add to a nearly 10-fold rise in the quantity of spectrum in square brackets that was formally teed-up for consideration on the preliminary WRC-31 agenda (WRW 2023 Dec. 18 p2).

STRONG ECONOMIC rationale to open up 7 GHz for Wi-Fi: industry study
October 29, 2024

7125-7250 MHz and 7250-7625 MHz
SIMPLIFIED NOTIFICATION of asymmetric sideband operation aimed to boost coverage without interfering with adjacent-channel FM broadcast stations, a notification to international partners said.
October 28, 2024

The status quo remains for digital FM stations operating on 107.1-107.9 MHz.  The existing practice protects ARNS from possible interference from higher power on an upper digital sideband, the regulator said. 
THE 433 MHz BAND has become a global standard frequency for certain applications: International Trade Division, Economic Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
October 28, 2024

433.795 to 434.045 MHz
“GOING FORWARD, 100 percent of wireless phones will be capable of working seamlessly with hearing aids,” the FCC chairwoman said.
October 17, 2024

100 percent wireless handset, hearing aid compatibility ensures people with hearing loss will have equal access to voice telecommunications, a consultant to the Gallaudet University Deaf/Hard of Hearing Technology Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center said citing the 2.4 trillion voice minutes enjoyed by the general public and tallied by CTIA this year.
QUESTIONNAIRE AIMS to develop “a clear understanding” of national authorisation regimes, including whether domestic regulatory landscapes can accommodate direct-to-cell in MSS and IMT bands, a proposal by Germany and Portugal said.
October 17, 2024

* Is it now possible to introduce D2C services under national authorisation in harmonised bands?

* What is holding back provision of D2C-MSS services domestically?

* What benefits are seen domestically from introducing D2C satellite services in harmonised bands for coverage in forest and mountain areas, or at sea?

* Does RR No. 4.4 — non-interference, no-protection — or other factors present special issues?

* Is use of RR No. 4.4 for commercial services possible in your country?
PROPOSED INT’L guidance for automotive radar uses in 122.25-130 GHz and 134-148.5 GHz prompted concern over consistency, an ITU-R working group said.
October 17, 2024

Operation of exterior and in-cabin automotive radars potentially to be recommended in the 122.25-130 GHz and 134-148.5 GHz bands under a short-range device regulatory framework.  
CONSIDERATION OF POSSIBLE remedial measures extended beyond the EC Joint Research Center to include France, ETSI, AdCos and DG-Grow, an update this month to the Radio Spectrum Committee indicated.
October 17, 2024

The JRC teed up in 2021, studies and possible remedial postures (WRW 2021 Nov. 29 p6).   Several officials and executives engaged in the work did not respond immediately about the state-of-play and steps ahead.
POSSIBLE NEW EESS (passive) allocations are being considered “to potentially migrate” sea surface temperature measurements away from the upper 6 GHz band, said the latest available draft EC mandate to CEPT before consideration by the Radio Spectrum Committee.
October 14, 2024

The WRC-27 impulse to bolster regulatory resources to perform sea surface temperature measurements “will complement, and not replace” use of the upper 6 GHz band, Italy repeated in late reaction to the draft EC mandate to CEPT, a concern shared by Austria. Separately, the European Commission “proposed” to avoid in the draft mandate to CEPT a prejudgement on the suitability of 7750 to 8400 MHz for a wireless broadband service, comments tallied in response to a Sept. 12 version of the draft mandate said.

REMAINING PORTION of EC-commissioned study on MSS in the 2 GHz band expected before year-end…
October 14, 2024

First airing in COCOM and Radio Spectrum Policy Group
WRC-27 PREPARATORY working group was biding time this month to consider the shape of work to spur MSS under three agenda items, and to consider support for a drive that follows one mandate more closely, a meeting report indicated.
October 11, 2024

France this month reiterated a call to rejigger consideration of bands to spur MSS, while the Global Satellite Operators Association supported the shape of the mandate under one WRC-27 agenda item. More background information is needed before an early sub-regional position can be articulated on possible new MSS allocations: meeting report.
BETTER UNDERSTANDING of RLAN dynamic frequency selection abilities sought for future weather radar planning: federal meteorological experts.
October 9, 2024

5600-5650 MHz
RF CERTAINTY in passive Earth sensing bands tapped for U.S.$1.1 million study on detecting, identifying, characterising and mitigating data degradation…
October 8, 2024

One objective is to shape a drive for more robust passive remote sensing around the world.  
REGULATOR’S POSITION paper on IoT and M2M could account for additional radio-based technologies that provide low-power and short-range communications…
October 8, 2024

Smart utility network
SUPPORT TO CLASSIFY 64 to 71 GHz as license-exempt in consultation…
October 8, 2024

Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones
SPECTRUM OUTLOOK prompted to account for license-exempt operations between 252 GHz and 450 GHz in-line with WRC decision…
October 8, 2024

Terahertz communications…
Domestic regulation: WPT … expanded 5G access for 4.9 GHz … spurring New Radio, including easing the upper limit of antenna power for NR user gear…
October 8, 2024

WPT TRANSMITTER, receiver requirements…

TDD-NR 5G USE extended into 4.9 GHz…

TDD-NR REPEATER, femtocell base station for FDD-NR, TDD-LTE and TDD-NR, and needed easing the upper limit of antenna power of NR user gear prompted the changes…