CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article One: Purpose of these Regulations
These regulations govern the use of unlicensed frequency spectrum for the deployment of
telecommunication services.
The frequency bands considered under this regulation are 2.4GHz and 5 GHz.
Article 2: Definitions of Terms
For the purpose of these regulations, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
ARIB:
Channelization:
Channel
Indexing:
DAA:
dB:
DFS:
e.i.r.p.:
ETSI:
Frequency band:
GHz:
HiSWANa:
IEEE:
ITU:
KHz:
LAN:
LBT:
MU:
mW:
OFDM:
RLAN:
TPC:
W:
WLAN:
WRC-12:
Association of Radio Industries and Businesses
Bandwidth of each channel and number of channels that can be
contained in the RF bandwidth allocation
The frequency difference between adjacent channel center
frequencies
Detect And Avoid
DeciBell
Dynamic frequency selection
Equivalent isotropically radiated power
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Nominal operating spectrum of operation
Giga Hertz
High speed wireless access network – type a
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
International Telecommunication Union
Kilo Hertz
Local area network
Listen before talk
Medium Utilisation
Milli Watt
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
Radio local area network
Transmit power control
Watt
Wireless Local Area Network
World Radio Conference of 2012
Article 3 : Scope of application
These regulations shall apply to the use of unlicensed frequency spectrum for the deployment of
telecommunication services in the Republic of Rwanda.
Regulations for the use of unlicensed spectrum
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