[wsfii-discuss] Why 5.725-5.850 GHz band is not allowed in European countries?

Sun Jul 30 12:17:07 UTC 2006

Mahabir Pun wrote:
> Hello Dave;
> 
> Thank you very much for the detailed instructions and suggestions. Those
> will be very helpful.
> 
> I found that Eurpoean countries are not allowing 5.725-5.850 GHz bands for
> public use. Is it because it creates interferences to other radios or for
> some other reasons?

It's to do with existing users of the frequencies and varies greatly 
from country to country. For instance Italy only allowed public use of 5 
GHZ last year under a general authorisation and in the UK one of the 
5Ghz bands has restrictions around certain locations in the uk and hence 
requires geographic registration for every device using the band.

The EU countries are supposed to be liberalising and harmonising 
spectrum policy but it is a slow process. Bob Horvitz has a great set of 
resources on this site with links to most of the key EU harmonisation docs.

http://www.volweb.cz/horvitz/os-info/europe.html

> Friends from the European countries can also explain the freequesncies
> that are allowed there.

The European Radio organisation also has good tool here which lists all 
the frequency allocations in Europe in a searchable way by country and 
regional agreements.

http://www.efis.dk/search/general

cheers

/julian