SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Half-way between the last and the next World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), it remains unclear how global radio frequency regulators will vote when asked whether the 8-GHz X-band spectrum, where satellites have primary status, should be thrown open for use by terrestrial mobile broadband services.
The 194 national members of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are well-known for waiting until the last minute for disclosing their positions, and the same looks to be true for WRC-27, scheduled for Oct. 18 .
