Shared Spectrum’s applications can assist a wide range of commercial entities with their spectrum issues, including first responders, cellular phone companies, wireless network providers and more. The following are areas where Shared Spectrum is focusing on improving spectrum capacities:

Fixed Internet Access

• » Increase (2-5 times) radio range in restrictive terrain (buildings, hills and forests)
• » Enable internet access in medium and low density areas

Rapid deployment

• » Emergency/disaster response and recovery
• » Sporting events and other itinerant uses
• » Industrial controls and spectrum monitoring
• » Electronic news gathering

Short distance

• » Video link using TV “white spaces”

Band manager/spectrum broker (resource pooling)