Spectrum Policy
Intel public policy: How Intel promotes innovation worldwide
Appropriate global communications policies can increase the availability of high-quality Internet and communications services. Such policies can promote the widespread deployment of affordable broadband technologies, including wireless and associated services, while not limiting innovation in technology and services.
Intel is a leading supplier for 5G, Wi-Fi and other telecommunications equipment and devices. Making high-quality broadband more widespread and affordable and improving the cost and quality of data-rich applications will spur economic growth in many ways.
Debunking a Myth About
Innovation and Standards
Debunking a Myth About
Innovation and Standards
Everyone knows that a great idea means nothing if it never turns into a reality. This sentiment forms the core of Steve Jobs’ famed maxim, “Real artists ship!”
A Meaningful Step Toward
Closing the Digital Divide
A Meaningful Step Toward
Closing the Digital Divide
Industry leaders, educators, policy makers and numerous other stakeholders have long recognized the importance of broadband and the need to provide access. While digital connectivity has certainly expanded, gaps in access and adoption persist. For the past year, access to broadband determined whether people could work from home, connect with family and friends, access health care, attend school, and take advantage of other important services.
Key Issues
Allow flexibility in spectrum allocation
Spectrum suitable for wide-area, high power cellular technologies such as 5G use should be cleared and flexibly licensed to allow carriers to change services, technologies and business plans freely. For example, in the United States (U.S.), the Federal Communications Commission’s voluntary “incentive auction” has enabled clearance of television broadcasters’ spectrum and subsequently selling it to mobile carriers. The innovative mid-band auction of spectrum previously used by satellite operators paves the way to future 5G services. In the U.S. and countries worldwide, additional spectrum allocations are needed to meet the burgeoning demand on licensed mobile broadband networks.
Add internationally harmonized spectrum bands
Current and next generations of Wi-Fi and other unlicensed technologies should be fostered by making additional internationally harmonized spectrum bands (such as 6 GHz and 60 GHz) available on an unlicensed basis. This action would enable opportunities to implement wide channels with greater bandwidth and lower latency. Many new use cases would be made possible, such as video-rich experiences on devices with larger screens and touchless control.
Make additional spectrum available
Regulators should make additional spectrum available for mobile broadband to meet the burgeoning demand for these applications.
Promote accessible broadband through subsidies
Where necessary, regulators may also use targeted, competitively neutral subsidies to promote market-based broadband policies for widespread, high-quality, affordable broadband.
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