LMDS
LMDS definition - telecom
A wireless local loop (WLL) technology developed by Bernard B. Broussard for wireless cable television (TV), referring to premium wireless subscription TV rather than traditional free broadcast TV or cable TV. Broussard, with Shant and Vahak Hovnanian, formed a firm that provided 49 TV channels in New York City, and later added high speed Internet access. The technical rights to LMDS technology later were spun off into a separate company, and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auctioned the first LMDS radio licenses in early 1998.The A Block has a width of 1.15 GHz in the frequency bands of 27.5
Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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