Subject: [NEXTEL-1] 3.4GHz auction- protest in Wales

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 19:10:07 -0500

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From: John Richard <[email-masked]>
Subject: 3.4GHz auction- protest in Wales

Spectrum has become a politicized issue in Wales! 

As politicians in the Welsh Assembly and grassroots
activists challenge the way in which the regional
licenses for the forthcoming 3.4GHz auction have been
determined by the UK government: 

Wales has a digital divide agenda, and the Welsh
Assembly government has developed an understanding of
wireless as a critical means of broadband delivery for
"remote and rural areas" (- and that includes the
de-industrialized coal and steel communities of the
South Wales Valleys): 

Will there be intervention to re-frame the auction to
meet this public policy agenda for Broadband Wales? 

1)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130038,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage

Backlash hits wireless broadband auction
17:12 Thursday 6th February 2003
Graeme Wearden

Government officials are threatened with a 
skewering by a leading US wireless guru as the 
3.4GHz auction comes under more criticism

Opposition to the forthcoming 3.4GHz wireless
broadband auction is growing, from both Welsh 
politicians and influential grassroots activists.

Several members of the Welsh Assembly are understood
to be keen to try and derail the auction, which is due 
to start in May, and a leading US wireless broadband 
specialist has urged e-envoy Andrew Pinder to intervene 
to stop what he called "this destructive decision" (...)
 
2)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129849,00.html

Government defends wireless broadband plans
17:11 Tuesday 4th February 2003
Graeme Wearden   

The government is rejecting criticism of its latest
wireless broadband plans, but opponents may still try
to derail the auction, claiming that Wales got a rough
deal (...)
 
3) 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2710779.stm

Thursday, 30 January, 2003, 17:47 GMT 

Wireless broadband plans attacked
Assembly Members have reacted angrily to the UK
Government's plans to sell licences for wireless
broadband covering Wales (...)

4)
I may as well refer the reader to some of the
wireless broadband advocacy work in Wales with US
grassroots wireless campaigner Dave Hughes:
http://www.johnwilsonweb.com/broadband/

-check-out the videos promoting community networks and
WISP's in the unlicensed bands (-ok well 5.8GHz Band C
"back-to-a-licensed-scenario" in the UK is another
story right now...)

John Wilson

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