What is the Spectrum Framework Review Implementation Plan?
This is the first time a UK regulator has helped businesses plan for the future by setting out a comprehensive programme of potential spectrum awards over a number of years. The awards offer businesses the opportunity to develop valuable new applications which have the potential to offer consumers new services. For example, • Spectrum at 2.5 GHz could be used for a wide range of mobile applications, whether using 3G standards or other next generation mobile services. • Spectrum currently used as a buffer zone between GSM mobile and DECT cordless phones could soon be used for a range of services including private GSM networks, which would allow private mobile networks covering business sites, university campuses or other organisations to allow employees and students to use the same mobile phone handsets that they use now. • Newly-available frequencies at 2010 and 2290 MHz could be used for mobile broadband technologies such as WiMax. • 40MHz of spectrum in the so-called ‘L-Band’ (at 145
