The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper on spectrum allocation for short-range communication technologies which are used in residents and enterprises or in limited areas where cellular networks are not available.
In the paper, TRAI has asked the industry to comment on whether cordless telecommunications system (CTS) technologies can co-exist with existing cellular systems.
The regulator said that the market for residential and enterprise intra-telecommunication networks has seen very little growth due to the limited wireless options available.
Most of the solutions used in CTS is in 2.4 Ghz spectrum. This spectrum band is also used to operate wireless local area networks for computing devices.
The regulator?s consultation paper is expected to discuss the issues of current allocation of spectrum for CTS, requirement for identification of additional band of spectrum and the possibility of delicensing the 1800-1900 or 1910-1920 MHz band for low power CTS applications.
TRAI has asked industry stakeholders to provide their comments by January 31, 2012 and their counter-comments on the comments by February 10, 2012.
