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GUINEA-BISSAU
- "The regulator ICGB (Institut des Communications de la Guinée-Bissau) is responsible for spectrum allocation. It derives 62% of its funding from the application of spectrum fees. Broadcasting spectrum is managed jointly with the Ministry (Ministère de la Communication Sociale). Spectrum is assigned via public agreement and on a first-come, first-served basis..." --- from West African Common Market Project: Harmonization of Policies Governing the ICT Market [in] the UEMOA-ECOWAS Space - Radio Spectrum Management, by Michel Schaar and Dr. Chris Doyle, International Telecommunication Union/the European Union, September 2005, page 12.
- Telecommunications Management Group, Inc. says that it "helped the regulator, the Instituto de Comunicaçöes de Guiné Bissau (ICGB), to begin its regulatory oversight of such issues as...licensing... Also developed a strategy for implementing the liberalization called for in the recent telecommunications law..."
- Telecommunications Basic Law - Decree No. 03-99 In English.
- "The 2.4Ghz spectrum on Eguitel's mast in Bissau is very crowded..." ---from "Guinea Bissau: First link," by R. J. Honicky, Talking About TIER, 25 November 2006. (Honicky is an engineering student from UC Berkeley who is installing long-distance 2.4 GHz links in the country.)
- IDRC's map of "Licensing Regimes and Usage of 2.4 and 5 GHz Bands" in Africa (which seems to be based on Isabel Neto's research) shows 2.4 GHz as a licensed band. However Neto reports that she got no survey response from Guinea-Bissau (see pages 177-201 of Wireless Networks for the Developing World: The Regulation and Use of Licence-Exempt Radio Bands in Africa (June 2004).
- "AirNet Communications Corporation, the technology leader in software defined base station products for wireless communications, today announced that it has received approximately $1M in expansion purchase orders from TECORE Wireless Systems for deployment with GuineTel, a subsidiary of Portugal Telecom, in Guinea-Bissau... GuineTel will now be able to offer GPRS to its subscribers enabling web browsing, sending images and accessing email..." ---"AirNet Wins $1M Deal, Unstrung News Feed, 25 February 2005.