Today the United Kingdom steps in a new era – era of airwaves control. This control is managed by the British company – Ofcom. Ofcom – is the independent authority for the UK communications industries as radio, television and all wireless communication services. The company has the right and responsibility to sell the whole spectrum of the nation airwaves as well as providing companies with the licences. This tendency has a great future for the UK plc.

Current position. Fourth auction of radio spectrum licences performed by Ofcom was held in February, 2008. Lucky bidders – business giants such as Orange, T-Mobile and BT competed for 10, 28, 32 and 40 GHz bands. Less famous professionals like MLL Telecom, UK Broadband and Arqiva took part in this auction too. What was remarkable? The amount paid for every MHz was about 178 pounds. It is really –very CHEAP!!! MLL Telecom has been successful, being awarded national spectrum licences in the 32 and 40 GHz bands. MLL Telecom supplies customers with wireless, safe and secure, rapid and cost-beneficial, future-proof connectivity. MLL delivers network to the places where other companies cannot reach. MLL customers include such network operators like BT, Affiniti etc. This auction of 40 MHz is presently in progress development. The range of use is mobile TV, broadcasting. An important aspect of the nature of airwave is its frequency, length and speed. By the length airwaves divide into short, medium or long ones. Now you see that propagation straight depends on the frequency, length and speed. What is valuable here? Normally, the lower the frequency of the wave- the better signals go through the obstacles and enter the buildings. To tell you the truth the prices are really cheap – as this gives an opportunity for the new services to spread out more efficient and quicker. Future plans. Last week Ofcom declared future plans for the 2.6GHz bands. This spectrum can serve new wireless services. The auction is going to be launched in the summer. The working mechanism of the auction is like that- demand gives born to the market and the last settles on the range of the frequencies and consequently their particular use and apply taking into account the price the bidder is ready to pay for. This technology is rather efficient and dynamic, also saleable. Furthermore, you can use the frequencies or do not use them, but you are forbidden to change the way of usage of the spectrum assets are oriented to. It is really obvious that the atmosphere in this sector has changed rather drastically just in the last 5-8 years within the United Kingdom.

Conclusion. First of all the whole system produces wanted and needed spectrum supplied and guaranteed with the working licences. What is important that this programme is managed by one regulator – Ofcom, so no other sellers or providers. Evidently, the market will widen due to the amount of released spectrum thus provoking the progress of the radio industry in the UK. In the second place, and also significant- is correlation between diverse blocks of bands. For instance, MLL possesses bands of 32GHz and 40GHz – they are perfectly fit WiMAX and mobile service providers. So, MLL need to correlate with the final – consumer in order to use this band more efficient. Consequently, all parts are involved in this process should co- operate and correlate in order to work more effective and successful.

Your business is doing well and you are thinking of expanding. China is one of the largest emerging markets in the world, and you want to be able to sell your products to these customers. Perhaps you want to do business with a company in China that can give you great discounts on items that you need for your business. It is easy to see how much the nation has to offer, and you are excited to do business there. If this is the case, then you are going to need to travel to China, probably on a frequent basis. This means that you will need a travel phone for China.

Why do you need one of these travel phones? Why can’t you just use your regular mobile phone for the calls you make from China? Well, you could. However, you would be wasting many thousands of dollars on roaming charges. You see, your carrier, as well as whatever local carrier you need to use, will charge you outrageous fees just to use your phone. If you aren’t careful, you could end up spending more on your phone bills than you did to bring your sales team overseas! That is why it is so important to have a travel phone for China when you head there for business. It just makes good business sense.

You want to cut costs at every turn, and this should always include your travel expenses. With a travel phone, you will be able to reduce these costs drastically. The more money you can save on these travel arrangements and phone calls the more money your company will have in reserve. As simple as it sounds, getting a travel phone for China could be one of the smartest business decisions you make. You are going to love just how much money you save over the course of the trip.

You can find companies that can outfit your entire sales team with phones and a plan that will give them access to cheaper roaming charges while in China. This means you won’t have to watch over them and guard the use of their phones while there. When you can concentrate on business rather than worrying about your phone bills, you will be able to accomplish much more. A travel phone for China is a smart business expense!

Rather than lead with the virtues of a particular technology or vendor solution, MaxTunity prefer to approach things from the client perspective – what is your particular business problem?

How is the business problem defined? By obtaining an in depth understanding of the problem at hand, then the chances of finding an appropriate solution are greatly increased. There are a number of tools and techniques to clearly define business requirements and target processes. One established approach is to simply define What (needs to be done), Who (does it), When (do they do it), Which (information is acted on) and Where (is it done) for each activity within the process.

Within the context of information assurance, disaster recovery and business continuity, then this approach can clearly and graphically communicate responsibilities and processes around areas such as effective disposal of secure information, risk & vulnerability, internet security, content monitoring, encryption, single sign on, access control, data backup and retrieval.

How is appropriate expertise, vendor technology sourced to solve the business problem? When a clear understanding of the business problem is defined, then this can be used to provide a filter through the vast quantity and complexity of the technology and vendor marketplace. Knowledge bases, analyst reports, vendor accreditations, case studies and other sources can be reviewed to shortlist the vendors appropriate for your business problem. This approach results in the solution being business problem led, rather than feature / technology led.

How is a low risk, cost effective solution implemented? The existence of a clear business requirement will enable clients to buy a solution based on real business need, rather that feature. Expensive solutions with irrelevant features can be rejected in favour of appropriate, lower cost solutions.

Proven change management and phased project approaches can be adopted to avoid common reasons for IT project failure such as lack of technical knowledge, poor communication, planning and vendor management.

What types of technology and solutions should be considered? The solution, of course, needs to meet the detailed requirements and budget constraints. There are many vendors within the marketplace – some of these are innovative and occasionally at substantially less cost than traditional solutions.

In May 2008, for example, the Business Continuity and Resiliency Services business unit at a global manufacturer announced its first foray into the on-demand data-protection market with the introduction of new Information Protection Services offerings based on Software as a Service (SaaS) technologies.

Another example includes a UK manufacturer with exclusive rights across Europe for an established, low cost, easy installation ‘black box’ disaster recovery system, as used by NASA, US Postal Service, British Telecom, the NHS and many others.

This product suite is comprised of a series of integrated hardware & software appliances and offers everything from single e-mail recovery in Exchange, through to support and full recovery for Windows, Linux, Solaris and a further 20+ Operating Systems. The solution completely restores Servers (including VMware environments), Laptops or PC’s from the local and / or remote ‘black box’, and in a matter of only minutes.

How can we help? For help with defining your business problem (business resilience or otherwise), sourcing appropriate vendors, and implementing low risk, cost effective solutions, then contact MaxTunity without obligation.