Industry prospects for 3G at 1700 MHz continue to dim. (News).

RCR Wireless News, March, 2002 by Silva, Jeffrey

WASHINGTON-With President Bush now declaring the war on terrorism will be long, and the Pentagon's heavy reliance on network-centric communications and strategic weapons that operate on prized 1700 MHz frequencies sought by mobile-phone firms, the wireless industry's campaign to secure government spectrum for third-generation wireless systems appears to be in serious trouble.

As such, the Bush administration- caught between a rock and a hard place in promoting national security and high-tech economic agendas that clash on the spectrum question-is playing down expectations for a "win-win" solution to the 3G spectrum struggle between the mobile-phone industry and the Department of Defense. At the wireless industry's annual convention last week in...

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