FCC pushes ultrawideband issues back to the IEEE, defers issuing clarification: I wrote about this for InfoWorld a few weeks ago, covering how the 802.15.3a committee had a great set of proposals in front of them, and that the multiband OFDM approach might succeed if the FCC agreed that the alliance behind it could measure conformance to the rules in a certain fashion. The multiband proposal is the leading candidate. The FCC didn't clarify measurements issues in their statement, requesting that the IEEE decide on a standard on its merits and then they can work with that final standard.
Did the Multiband OFDM Alliance come out on top after this statement? Or does it lend support to XtremeSpectrum and Motorola, the folks pushing the more classical (as it were) UWB proposal? Only the next IEEE 802.15 meeting will tell. It's possible that it throws plans into disarray and that the multiband proposal doesn't achieve supermajority passage -- then rejected proposals are back on the agenda, pushing ratification back several months.