There are legitimate but competing demands for access to the Upper 6GHz band by proponents of Wi-Fi and mobile services both internationally and in the UK. What are the advantages/disadvantages to the UK of an allocation favouring mobile or Wi-Fi compared to a hybrid option, which enables access but with limitations to both services?
Background
For the deployment of current and future technologies, DI wishes to develop a stronger evidence base around the benefits of and barriers to their deployment, with a focus on the adoption of 5G and open network infrastructure to build the resilience of networks and support innovation. DI needs to develop models and techniques to understand efficient spectrum allocation and understand the issues surrounding the use of specific spectrum bands.
DI needs to better understand the trends around technological convergence, future demand for digital connectivity, regulation around access to the internet and emerging cloud services and their impact on security.
DI wishes to complement its understanding of current technology deployment with research into the work driving future technologies to develop and increase the UK’s future capabilities.
All of this needs to be underpinned by further research into the security and resilience of UK networks, addressing future developments and threats, gaining insight into the value of security interventions and barriers to investment in security.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Enabling Affordable Internet Access with Dynamic Spectrum Management and Software Defined Radio
This project aims to investigate how the use of dynamic spectrum access (DSA) management and geo-location database technology, combined with software defined radio (SDR) implementations may be used to enable effective an...
Funded by: GCRF
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on enabling affordable internet access with dynamic spectrum management, which is related to spectrum allocation but not specifically addressing the advantages/disadvantages of favoring mobile or Wi-Fi in the UK.
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Seamless and Adaptive Wireless Access for Efficient Future Networks (SERAN)
Wireless communications is becoming a pervasive technology that we use throughout our lives. Across society, there is a move away from using the internet on desktop computers and towards mobile phones, laptops and tablet...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it discusses efficient management of radio spectrum and new spectrum bands, which are related to spectrum allocation but does not directly address the advantages/disadvantages of favoring mobile or Wi-Fi in the UK.
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UK-India Future Networks Initiative
In July 2024, the governments of UK and India announced the UK-India Technology Security Initiative (TSI)[1]. Pillar 1 of this TSI states that “the UK and India will build a new and enhanced Future Telecoms P...
Funded by: ISPF
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on future telecoms collaboration between UK and India, but does not directly address the specific advantages/disadvantages of spectrum allocation for Wi-Fi and mobile services in the UK.