May 8, 2006

Adoption of "FY2006 R&D Themes for Expansion of Radio Frequency Resources"

MIC invited proposals from the public on "FY2006 R&D Themes for Expansion of Radio Frequency Resources" during the period from February 24 through March 24, 2006. During said period, MIC received many proposals from research institutes of private-sector entities, universities, etc. After external valuation procedures on those proposals, MIC adopted the following R&D proposals:
Individual R&D theme Adopted proposals
Organization Representative of R&D unit
R&D on technologies on frequency sharing between satellite communicationsservice and other communications service KDDI Corp. INOUE Masazumi
R&D on polarization multiplexing technologies for satellite communications service Mitsubishi Electric Corp. OMINE Hiroyuki
R&D on dense frequency use technologies for satellite communications transponders Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. KAZAMA Hiroshi
R&D on advanced technologies for higher micro-wave band antenna Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) TAKANO Tadashi
R&D on millimeter-wave band high-definition video transmission technologies Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. KADO Yuichi
R&D on advancement of mobile communications for relaying of 800-MHzmegahertz band video materials NHK; Japan Broadcasting Corp. SHOGEN Kazuyoshi

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