| This white paper outlines the recent history of regulatory issues that affect today's Wireless LANs as well as the current state of spectrum availability and the changes coming out of the 2003 World Radio Conference. The Wireless LAN technologies affected by these regulatory issues include 5 GHz IEEE 802.11a, legacy 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.11b and proposed IEEE 802.11g, which is expected to become widely available in the 2.4 GHz spectrum. |