Advanced Wireless Services

Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) refers to fixed and mobile terrestrial wireless applications using bandwidth sufficient for the provision of a variety of applications, including those using voice and data (such as Internet browsing, message services, and full-motion video) content. Although AWS is commonly associated with so-called third generation (3G) applications and has been predicted to build on the successes of such current-generation commercial wireless services as cellular and broadband Personal Communications Services (PCS), the services ultimately provided by AWS licensees are limited only by the Fixed and Mobile designation of the spectrum allocated by the FCC for AWS and the service rules adopt by the FCC for those bands.