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Monday, February 19, 2007
Government frees 5.8 GHz for Wimax

With severe crunch for Internet bandwidth in India, the DoT has delicensed 50 MHz of WiMax spectrum in the range of 5.8 GHz.

WiMax a disruptive technology for wireless IP communications operates in three frequencies 5.8 GHz, 3.5GHz and 2.5GHz. Of these, the 5.8GHz is a license exempt brand and hence the DoTs move to delicense it to enable ISPs in India to deploy broadband over WiMax platform.

A lot of ISPs are likely to offer services in this frequency as it is now free. However, if a large number of ISPs switch, then this frequency can get choked, as only a total of 50 Mhz (from 5.825 to 5.875 Ghz) has been delicensed. This can result in poor quality of service.

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Published on Monday, February 19, 2007 at 10:38 AM  
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