by 3 MHz LTE 809 to 814 Broadband P25 LTE or iDEN LTE (5 MHz) 814 to 849 Extended US 850 LTE MOB RX LTE 800 851 to 854 Narrowband P25 or iDEN Could also be two by 1.4 or one by 3 MHz LTE 854 to 859 Broadband P25 LTE or iDEN LTE (5 MHz) 859 to 894 Extended US 850 LTE MOB TX LTE 900 896 to 902 iDEN SMR TX MOB RX LTE 900 934 to 940 iDEN SMR RX local TV. It would also make TV more resistant to interference from white-space transmissions. The band plan if implemented with LTE 800 as a standard duplex (mobile TX in the lower paired band) would look something like Table 16.8. As an added bonus it can be seen that LTE 900 overlaps with the upper iDEN bands at 900 MHz, which could be implemented as four by 1.4 MHz LTE bands, two by 3 MHz LTE or one by 5 MHZ LTE with some guard band. Getting a band plan like this underway would, however, require a regulatory environment that creates incentives to encourage cooperation between the cellular and broadcasting industry, the public safety radio user, standards and vendor community and white-space vendors and investors on both sides of the Atlantic, preferably bridging private-sector and public-sector interest. An adversarial spectral allocation process designed to maximise income from spectral auctions makes this cooperation harder to achieve. This is compounded by a failure to realise any substantive global harmonisation, particularly in the LTE 700 band. A lack of cross-sector and/or transatlantic let alone global thinking and direction in standards setting also does not help. International spectral and standards policy together have a direct impact on user equipment cost and performance and user experience value. Regional standards now make very little economic sense. Nationally specific standards make even less sense. Vendor-specific standards only make sense to the vendor. Satellite Networks If a local or regional band allocation or adopted standard does not scale on a global basis, this needs to be factored into bid valuation and network return on investment expectations. 