From today until Wednesday, March 3, 2010, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIC) is soliciting proposals as described below to use as data when selecting new R&D themes to implement R&D for Expansion of Radio Frequency Resources in fiscal 2011.

Background and Purpose
Along with recent innovations in wireless technology, various services and businesses using radio waves have propagated, and they have become so vital that systems using radio waves are now indispensable in citizens' lives. In addition, there are expectations that the appearance of new systems using radio waves will be a solution to various social issues Japan faces, such as an aging population and regional revitalization. However, since the convenient low-frequency range is under heavy use, introducing new systems using radio waves is difficult at present.

Since 2005, the MIC has been contracting institutes at universities and private companies and implementing R&D for Expansion of Radio Frequency Resources to conduct R&D on technologies that can further expand radio frequency resources in order to maintain efficient usage of limited and scarce radio frequencies.

The MIC wants to expand into new R&D themes contributing to the expansion of radio frequency resources and is now soliciting proposals with the purpose of using the data when considering proposals for executing new R&D starting in fiscal 2011.

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