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 3