Officials at several U.S. Agencies and wireless industry companies last week agreed on how to allocate spectrum in the hotly contested 5GHz band in a deal that gives wireless LANs more space but less priority over other signals. The agreement among the Department of Defense, NASA, the Federal Communications Commission and others benefits the wireless industry because it allocates an extra 255MHz of spectrum for the WLAN standard 802.11a, which already has 325MHz of spectrum allocated.
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