WSA chairman to address telecommunications conference

It has been confirmed that the WhiteSpace Alliance (WSA) chairman will speak at the International Telecommunications Union Asia-Pacific Conference.

Dr Apurva N Mody will participate in sessions addressing the ‘Transition to 5G in the Asia-Pacific Region’.

Mody will discuss how TV white space technology can be used to deliver next-generation internet services to help bridge the ‘digital divide’. White space solutions are ideally suited to delivering broadband services to underserved populations in rural and remote areas, and can support a broad range of commercial, education and government applications.

The technology uses available TV band spectrum to deliver fixed wireless broadband services at distances up to 30 km, and can be used in environments where wired infrastructure is too costly to deploy, or vegetation makes traditional line-of-sight wireless solutions unreliable.

Mody will address the role of standards, such as WSA-developed Wi-FAR and WSAConnect specifications, in ensuring multivendor interoperability of TV white space solutions, and describe considerations for future deployments.

He is an internationally recognised expert on spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum access and white space communications. In addition to his chairmanship of the WhiteSpace Alliance, he is chairman of the IEEE 802.22 Working Group on Wireless Regional Area Networks and vice chair of the United States National Spectrum Consortium.

The Asia-Pacific meeting is organised jointly by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Cambodia. The conference is attended by national telecommunications regulators, as well as ITU representatives from international organisations, industry and academia.

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