[IP] Ofcom plans to create open market in spectrum
Begin forwarded message:
From: Will Morton <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 24, 2004 8:55:17 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Ofcom plans to create open market in spectrum
For IP if you like.
(Ofcom is the UK telecoms regulator)
W
Ofcom to throw radio spectrum wide open
Market forces, it's over to you
By Peter Judge, Techworld
Ofcom is planning the biggest shake-up in telecoms regulation since it
began 100 years ago. For most of the radio spectrum, users currently
hold pre-defined licences to operate specific technologies. Now, Ofcom
has decided that market forces can do a better job: by 2010, companies
will be able to trade spectrum without reference to Ofcom, and also
change the use of that spectrum as they please. "Currently, Ofcom
manages 94 percent of its radio spectrum in a 'command and control'
manner. We want to reduce that to 21 percent by 2010," said William
Webb, head of research and development at Ofcom and author of the
Spectrum Framework Review published today.
[ http://www.techworld.com/mobility/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=1013 ]
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