RE: WCIT outcome?

["Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <[e-mail]>]

I'd like my mobile phone to work all round the world, as it does. It takes more than one band, but only a few. And that took international regulation, not just cross-border issues. And I'd like no one to spill interference into the GPS band. And ... It really isn't as simple as you suggest. Yes, of course it's national governments that sell off 3G spectrum, but only after international agreements established that they could do so.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos M. Martinez [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: 03 January 2013 12:52
To: Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Cc: Phillip Hallam-Baker; IETF Discussion Mailing List
Subject: Re: WCIT outcome?

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My point was not about the need (or lack thereof) of spectrum
management, but rather the need (or lack thereof) of an international
office for handling spectrum slots.

The kind of allocation management you mention is an easier one to
tackle. Radio allocation for mobile networks is distance-restricted, it
only has to deal with local frequencies unless your are installing
mobile antennas in border towns.

If countries can be good neighbors you don't need an elephantine
international bureaucracy to manage these type of spectrum allocation.
Where I live this has been the case, all cross-border frequency issues
were fixed through peer to peer negotiation between operators.

As for spectrum sales, well, again it's not the ITU who's doing it, the
regulators are.

Large-scale, global, spectrum management remains an issue (i'm thinking
about talk radio, marine/aircraft/satellite communications, navigation
aids and similar applications), but, IMO, is a less demanding/critical
task than it used to be, and thus the workload for the ITU-R should be
less than it used to be.

cheers!

~Carlos

On 1/2/13 3:34 PM, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote:
> Carlos M. Martinez 
>> Radio spectrum allocation was a critical task at the time (it still is,
>> although the world doesn't depend that much on it anymore),
> 
> Given the ever increasing number of mobile devices, one could argue that the world
> has never been more dependent on radio spectrum allocation. It's still not that long since
> the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer made over £20 billion from selling spectrum, something
> possible since international treaties had agreed on its purpose for 3G communications.
> 


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