3G Americas Recommends Plan to Maximize Broadband Spectrum

Source: 3G Americas press release
3G Americas, a wireless industry trade association representing the GSM family of technologies including HSPA and LTE, today announced that it has published key recommendations for utilizing non-standard spectrum bands in a white paper titled, 3GPP Technology Approaches for Maximizing Fragmented Spectrum Allocations. The paper discusses the emerging challenges for spectrum stakeholders involving how to permit wider spectrum usage by operators using various broadband technologies and current spectrum allocations. These challenges are especially poignant in “fragmented” spectrum bands (which depart from globally or regionally harmonized bands), such as the AWS III band in the U.S., and in the potential for country specific allocations of the 2.6 GHz IMT band and “Digital Dividend” spectrum outside of the U.S.