ITU adopts WiMAX as 3G standardThe International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has approved WiMAX as a 3G standard. The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly (RA-07) formally recognised technology derived from IEEE 802.16 by incorporating it as the sixth terrestrial IMT-2000 radio interface. This is the first addition to IMT-2000 since the original five were adopted years ago as part of the 3G radio standards. IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunications) is a global standard defined by ITU in a set of interdependent ITU Recommendations, which include the specifications for the radio interfaces of advanced wireless communications systems such as 3G mobile. An initial application for the IMT-2000 Advanced standard was made at the ITU-R WP8F meeting in Kyoto, Japan, in January this year.
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