The Bush administration and industry reached agreement supporting a global allocation of 5 GHz spectrum for unlicensed wireless technologies that would operate at power levels that do not interfere with military radar, culminating months of intense negotiations and strengthening the U.S. position for the World Radicommunication Conference this summer in Geneva.
U.S. delegates will bring the newly forged deal on 5 GHz to its neighbors to the south at a meeting this week of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission in Orlando, Fla.
The deal was brokered by the Federal Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department of Defense and high-tech industry advocates. Separately, NTIA and the FCC on Friday announced they signed a new memorandum of understanding to coordinate spectrum used by government and non-government.
