Subject: Re: [paws] European geolocation database test licenses before Fairspectrum's

From: "Rosen, Brian" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:30:24 -0400

<as chair>
This subject isn't relevant to our work.  Neither the original announcement, nor the follow up has anything to do with development of protocols for whitespace.  It is not appropriate for an IETF list.

Brian

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Subject:	[paws] European geolocation database test licenses before Fairspectrum's

Peter Stanforth, CTO of Spectrum Bridge Inc. in Florida, sent a message challenging Fairspectrum's release about yesterday's issuing of a white space database test license for part of Finland, which had been claimed as the first in Europe. Mr. Sanforth wrote:

"We applied for, and were awarded, an experimental license to conduct white space trials by the Finnish regulators in 2010, I still have the license on my wall. We actually published a joint report with Nokia on the results. Which was used as input into [the Cambridge Consortium's white space tests last spring].  Cambridge was run under a regulatory experimental license. Technically issued by Arquiva but approval by Ofcom was required and, in terms of size and scope I think it has a much better claim to be first in Europe, for which Microsoft should get the credit."

Surely FICORA had records about the earlier license so Fairspectrum and Nokia should have been aware of it, too.

>BOB<

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To: [email-masked]
Subject: [paws] Finland issues Europe's first TVWS geolocation database
Date: 27.8.2012 - 23:24:43

> Today Finland's telecom regulator FICORA issued Europe's first geolocation database service test license for TV white spaces to Fairspectrum Oy.
> 
> The license for database control of cognitive radios was issued 27 August to the Turku University of Applied Sciences. The license is valid for one year and covers the 470-790 MHz frequency range in a 40 x 40 km area surrounding Turku, Finland. Nearly 300 000 people live in the radio license area.  The license will be used by the White Space Environment (WISE) test consortium. which consists of Nokia, Digita, Fairspectrum, Ficora, Turku University of Applied Sciences, University of Turku, and Aalto University.  See the following link for Fairspectrum's press release:
> 
> https://sites.google.com/a/fairspectrum.com/public/propagating-thoughts/pressreleasefairspectrumprovidestvwhitespacedatabaseforeurope%E2%80%99sfirstgeolocationradiolicense
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