SA disappointed NCR Corp reports that while the US Federal Communications Commission has approved its WaveLAN spread spectrum radio local area network for use in the US, NCR Ltd is having problems getting the wireless network approved in the UK because the system uses frequencies between 902MHz and 962MHz, slap in the middle of the band used for analogue cellular telephone transmission, and the Department of Trade & Industry is worried about interference. The company argues that since WaveLan operates at only 600mW, interference either way is unlikely. The company anticipates similar problems across the continent by saying that it is working to modify the system to use another frequency band and will lobby for a single band to be allocated across Europe, with 2.4GHz the most promising one. It runs at 2Mbps, 10 times faster than infra red systems, which need line of sight.
