Spectrum Events: 2004

Date Event 8-11 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - Las Vegas, NV 21-23 Wireless Communications Association, 10th Annual Technical Symposium & Business Expo - San Jose, CA

Date Event 10-11 Public Safety Spectrum Management Forum, NTIA - Washington, DC 12-13 NTIA/National Academy of Sciences Spectrum Workshop, addressing critical spectrum needs, improving spectrum management, incentives to spur spectrum efficiency, and policies to streamline development of new technologies and expanded services - Washington, DC 24-27 NATE 2004, National Association of Tower Erectors - Nashville, TN 29-3/3 APCO Western Regional Conference 2004 - Spokane, WA

Date Event 2-4 6th Annual International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART) - Boulder, CO 8-10 Wireless Systems Design Conference & Expo - San Diego, CA 15-16 1st Annual Cognitive Radios Conference - Las Vegas, NV 21-25 Wireless Communications and Networking Conference - Atlanta, GA 22-24 CTIA Wireless 2004, Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association - Atlanta, GA 22-26 IWCE 2004 - Las Vegas, NV 28-31 PIERS 2004, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium - Pisa, Italy

Date Event 1 NTIA Forum: From RFID to Smart Dust - The Expanding Market for Wireless Sensor Technologies - Washington, DC 13-16 Rural Cellular Association Annual Convention and Exhibition - Las Vegas, NV 15 Debate: Should Spectrum Be Public or Private? Progress and Freedom Foundation - Washington, DC 15-16 Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference - Clearwater, FL 16 The New America Foundation Conference: Pervasive Connectivity: How Unlicensed Spectrum Will Help The World Go Wireless - Washington, DC 17-22 NAB 2004 - Las Vegas, NV 26-29 IEEE Radar Conference - Philadelphia, PA 26-29 ITS America 2004, Intelligent Transportation Society of America - San Antonio, TX 30 Accelerating the Transition to Digital TV: Developments at the FCC and in Congress - The Progress and Freedom Foundation - Washington, DC

Date Event 3-5 MRFAC Spring Meeting: Manufacturers Radio Frequency Advisory Committee - Seattle, WA 12 Spectrum Policy Luncheon: "Broadcast to Broadband?" The Berlin DTV Transition Model and the FCC's New Plan. 12:30 to 2:00 pm, Senate Commerce Committee Hearing Room - Russell Senate Office Building, SR-253, New America Foundation - Washington, DC 13 "Regulating Wireless: How Much and by Whom?" AEI-Brookings Joint Center - Washington, DC 16-19 UTC Telecom - United Telecom Council - Nashville, TN 17 Avoiding a Tragedy of the Telecommons: Finding the Right Property Rights Regime for Telecommunications. The Center for the Digital Economy at the Manhattan Institute, 8:30 am - 2:00 pm, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 1330 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC. PLEASE RSVP i@manhattan-institute.org or 212-599-7000 Ext. 405. 24-26 East Coast Regional APCO - Charleston, WV

Date Event 6-11 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium and Exhibition: ARFTG Microwave Measurements Conference RFIC Symposium - Fort Worth, TX 7-9 Mobile America's In-Building Wireless - Orlando, FL 9-11 MPRG 2004 Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications: Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group - Blacksburg, VA 9-18 Third International Meeting on Ultra-WideBand: ITU-R Task Group 1/8 - Boston, MA 14-15 SMR Leadership Conference - Washington, DC 20-24 Supercomm: Telecommunications Industry Association - Chicago, IL 30 - 7/2 10th International Symposium on Advances of Measurement Science - Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Date Event 15 Study on Conditions and Options in Introducing Secondary Trading of Radio Spectrum in the European Community, European Commission - Brussels, Belgium 16 Capitol Hill Briefing on Low Power Radio, "Low Power Radio: Why Not Use the 'White Space' in the FM Band to Create More Community Voices?" 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Commerce Committee Hearing Room, 253 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 21-22 2004 Wireless & Mobile World Expo - Toronto Canada

Date Event 8-12 APCO International 2004 - Montreal, Canada 20-22 Making the Connection - 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, Siebel Center for Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, IL 22-26 Aspen Summit Conference, Progress and Freedom Foundation - Aspen, CO

Date Event 13-15 Broadband Properties Summit, National Satellite Publishing - Irving, TX 16, 17 Spectrum Management Conference, Law Seminars International - Reston, VA 19-22 RAWCON 2004, IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference - Atlanta, GA 26-29 AMRA International Symposium - Kissimmee, FL 28-30 2004 CDMA Americas Congress - Miami, FL 29-10/2 Digital Reykjavik 2004 Conference and Expo - Reykjavik, Iceland

Date Event 1-3 32nd Annual Telecommunications Policy and Research Conference (TPRC) George Mason University School of Law - Arlington, VA 5 New Opportunities for Financing Wireless Spectrum, on-line registration, Vinson and Elkins – New York, NY 5-7 The One Tower Show: PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Conference & Expo - Dallas, TX 6-7 Antenna Systems Conference - Denver, CO 6-9 2004 Private Wireless Summit, Industrial Telecommunications Association - Washington, DC 7 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Workshop, FCC –Washington, DC 17-19 Wireless Industry Congress 2004 - Ottawa, Canada 18-21 VON 2004 Fall Conference & Exposition, pulver.com - Boston, MA 25 BroadWISE 2004, First International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Services and Applications - San Jose, CA 25-29 BroadNETS 2004, First International Conference on Broadband Networks - San Jose, CA 27-28 Rural Broadband 2004, Rural Broadband Coalition - Alexandria, VA 27-29 WISPCON Vegas, Part-15.org - Las Vegas, NV 31-11/3 MILCOM 2004 - Monetery, CA

Date Event 2-4 WiMax World Conference & Exposition 2004 - Boston, MA 9-11 Wireless Connectivity World - Santa Clara, CA 8-12 GSM Americas Congress: GSM Association - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 15-17 2004 Software Defined Radio Technical Conference and Product Exposition - Phoenix, AZ 15-18 VoIP World Congress 2004 - Nice, France 16-18 Third Annual Wireless Broadband Forum 2004, Wireless Broadband Association - Cambridge, UK 30-12/2 WiFi Planet Fall 2004 Conference & Expo, WiFi Planet - San Jose, CA

Date Event 8-9 Wireless Community Networks Summit - Miami, FL