Ofcom plans to create open market in spectrum

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Will Morton <will () memefeeder com>
Date: November 24, 2004 8:55:17 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
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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