The Electronic Communications Committee will do a “major study” on the future use of UHFnfrequencies with a focus on the 470-694 MHz band, the group responsible for harmonizing radio spectrum across Europe said in a release Friday (http://bit.ly/12Sb7i2). “The study should considernthe most effective spectrum management framework for” future use of this range of spectrum, itnsaid. "The ECC wishes to look beyond a piecemeal approach (‘salami-slicing’) to the use of thisnprime range of spectrum, and to consider options for a more joined-up strategy, especially for thenlonger term and below 694 MHz," said ECC Chairman Eric Fournier. “A particular challenge for usnis that the optimum rate of evolution, as well as the ideal longer term equilibrium, is unlikely to benthe same throughout Europe.” ECC created a task group to look into development of the 470-694nMHz band, the mandate from the European Commission to study the use of 700 MHz for mobile radionand the establishment of an EU policy for the UHF band as a whole. The task group is led bynECC Vice-Chairman Jaime Afonso, of Portuguese spectrum regulator ANACOM, it said. The ECCnexpects the task group to finish its work within a year.
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