7. Next Steps

The Ministry intends to:

• Follow up this technical discussion paper with two seminars, in Auckland and Wellington, to be held in April 2005.
• Participate in ITU-R TG 1/8 meetings to be held in May and October 2005 to monitor and influence regulatory and technical developments.
• Report to the Minister of Communications on the industry submissions and TG 1/8 decisions.
• Continue to closely monitor and influence, where possible, international regulatory, technical and commercial developments on UWB.
• Publish the outcomes of the consultation process and future steps for industry.
• Draw information from international literature and engineering studies and commission some longer-term work on measuring the spectrum noise floor, in conjunction with universities or research institutes.