Wireless networking comes to India

Cory Doctorow 7:51 pm Tue Jul 2, 2002

India has loosened regulations its 2.4GHz band, opening up the country to indoor 802.11b wireless networks.

Agrawal said the deregulation of indoor WLANs would speed development of new enterprise applications and open up deployment of 802.11b networks. "Outdoor use will still require a license and we hope that the ministry will de-license that too," Agrawal said.

The Indian wireless industry wants outdoor use of 802.11b deregulated soon. But doubts remain, and government notification of a change in policy is anxiously awaited. "I feel that the government should lift all restrictions on the use of 802.11b, except maybe in some sensitive restricted areas," said Uday Ramachandran, Wipro's head of connectivity solutions. "This will enable people to use WLAN on office or college campuses. Also, since preventing RF transmissions from escaping from within a building is not easy, people might end up using it outdoors in any case."

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