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

Sun Jul 30 13:55:17 UTC 2006

Hello Julian;

Thanks for the information you provided. It will be very useful for me to
lobbying to make ISM bands license free.

Thanks.

Mahabir

> 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
>
>

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