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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedBush backs off 5 GHz band commitment.
RCR Wireless News, November, 2002 by Silva, Jeffrey
WASHINGTON--The Bush administration, which had signaled support for advanced wireless technologies that advocates claim will foster broadband Internet deployment and stimulate the sputtering U.S. economy, angered the high-tech industry last week by telling international telecom delegates in Geneva that it cannot support a wholesale global allocation of unlicensed spectrum in the 5 GHz band.
The official U.S. position, delivered at the preparatory meeting for next year's World Radiocommunication Conference, disrupted the momentum for unlicensed spectrum that has been gaining in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission in recent months. "I think the U.S. government made a tactical mistake by adopting the 5 GHz position it is advancing at...
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