Tuesday, December 05, 2017

WRC-19 agenda already includes ultra high frequencies above 275 GHz

At the last meeting of the year of CITEL PCC II, the discussion about the bands above 24GHz for the deployment of 5G was resumed. And due to the constant demand of spectrum, the analysis of higher frequencies for fixed-mobile services is already beginning to be incorporated into the agenda.

Last week, the Permanent Consultative Committee II - Radiocommunications (PCC II) of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) met in the Colombian city of Barranquilla with the aim already set in the 5G bands that will be defined in the next WRC-19. Apart from the controversies in low bands that constantly encourage the PCC II, the Barranquilla meeting began to take note of the status of the high bands - above 24 GHz - and even with references to "ultra high" bands that are not contemplated but just with brief references in the ITU Radio Regulations.

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