Daily Archives: April 23, 2008

New Spectrum Marketplace

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Haven’t heard enough about spectrum these days? Well a new marketplace just opened this week…

LMDSXchange is the first online marketplace that allows government agencies, businesses and telecommunications companies to locate and lease licensed broadband wireless spectrum in the 28-31GHz range, commonly called LMDS or Local Multi-point Distribution Service spectrum, on a nationwide basis. (Not that this is far removed fromt he 700 Mhz spectrum that has been in the news lately.)

According to the site, LMDS spectrum supports the transmission of data at speeds ranging from 1.5 Mbps to 800 Mbps, and can be used by businesses, government agencies and service providers to support a variety of network applications.

Broadband Policy Status in MN & US

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I’ve been waiting on official word that Governor Pawlenty signed the Broadband Study Bill. He signed on April 17, but official notice has been slow to surface – but I just found a scanned copy of the bill and the signature on the GIG Group’s web site.

So I’m going to call that official and share the news here.

Also I wanted to share a great map of broadband policy activity in the US. The map was created and kindly shared by the GIG group. It gives a nice easy (very high level) view of what’s happening around the country.

US Map of Broadband Policy Activity