E-Band and V-Band - Survey on status of worldwide regulation
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Conclusions
The current status of V-Band and E-Band is captured using a set of heterogeneous sources, allowing us a
good level of cross checking. Considering the standpoint of fixed service applications, mainly wireless
mobile backhauling and small cell backhauling needs, we have identified some critical points which
should be mitigated, according to us, for a fruitful exploitation of these two bands.
These points are:
Huge fragmentation level of V-Band not only worldwide, but also inside homogeneous regions like
the EU. Some reasons for that have been identified.
Regulations not homogeneous both in terms of emissions limitations and licence/coordination
methods, adopted country by country.
Different approaches for the V-Band between FCC and ETSI. This fact may generate confusion for
applications like WiGig in the EU area
Mainly in the E-Band, we reported an enormous difference of fees for a link licence, mainly due to
different models adopted for fee calculation, with fees sometimes too expensive and discouraging
deployments.
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