The European Parliament's Industry Committee has adopted a report calling for the reallocation to mobile and other services--such as public safety services, RFID, and road safety applications--of around 100 megahertz of frequency freed up by the switchover from analogue to digital terrestrial TV. Lawmakers called for this to be done by the end of 2012, and said the exercise should "not stop broadcasting services from flourishing".
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Spectrum policy was once considered a rarefied and technical backwater patrolled only by specialist engineers. However its importance in public affairs has recently become more widely recognised, not just because it stimulates economic development, but also because spectrum is the foundation for a significant amount of national GDP in of most countries. This fact has not escaped MEPs who have been concerned for over a year about their lack of power it his area.
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The council meeting also confirmed that member states have rejected the Commission's proposals for a pan-European telecoms regulator.
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A statement from the Commission said: "The Commission adopted on 13 June, in line with the rules of the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications of 2002, a decision on the harmonisation of the 2500-2690 MHz frequency band for terrestrial systems capable of providing electronic communications services in the Community.
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ComReg's initial view is that this should be a 10 year licence, with an annual fee of €650,000; released via a "single sealed bid first price auction" with a reserve price of €100,000; and technical conditions following the GE-06 Plan4 entries and the GE-06 spectrum mask5.
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In March the rest of the 700MHz spectrum went for a record price of more than US$19 billion, but D Block failed to get close to its reserve of $1.3 billion</a> with the sole bidder, Qualcomm, making a single bid for $472 million.
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The June 12 meeting of the EU telecoms ministers formally asked the Commission to start the work which will lead to comprehensive policy proposals for a European approach to the digital dividend.
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EU telecoms ministers during their meeting on 12 June in Luxembourg clearly rejected the idea of having an overarching European authority for telecoms, even if they have yet to fully formulate their own proposals, which they need to do by November.
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Practical use of the so-called interleaved or white-space spectrum between digital broadcasts in Europe has come a step closer following the delivery of a report on the issue by a CEPT study group.
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On the agenda for today's meeting in Luxembourg is the legislative reform of the EU telecoms package and especially the creation of a new European body which will gather national regulators. What is sure is that almost all member states are opposed to the creation of a super European regulator as proposed by the European Commission last November. They are now discussing an alternative, based on the current European Regulators Group (ERG), which today gathers the 27 national regulators and advises the Commission.
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Regulator Ofcom and mobile operators T-Mobile and O2 are keeping pretty quiet about the reasons behind the telcos' legal challenge to the proposed 2.6GHz auction, but the little they have had to say is quite revealing.
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The Ministry of Defence plan, launched on 30 May, envisions that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) will first apply for recognised spectrum access (RSA) in the 406.1 - 430MHz and possibly the 3400 - 3600MHz band from UK spectrum regulator Ofcom as a precursor to early consideration of options for release and sharing. The MoD expects to complete its audit of the 23 bands identified by the Cave audit for potential sharing by March 2009, and is considering a review of its remaining 186 bands (<i>PolicyTracker</i> 2.6.08 <A href="javascript:showStory(548,1)" class='newslink'>UK military proposes 'leading edge' spectrum release plan</a>).
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Tomorrow's Wireless World: Ofcom's Technology Research Programme 2007/2008 is the regulator's third review of its technology agenda. As it did last year, Ofcom predicted no breakthroughs in communications technology within the next 10 years, and, hence, no need to set spectrum aside for an "innovation reserve" or to make major regulatory changes.
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Digitalisation and changing consumer behaviour are causing terrestrial broadcasters and mobile telecommunication operators to search for new business models and opportunities. Both want to provide new, breakthrough applications and devices. Broadcasters would like to offer interactive/data applications on mobile terminals, which would require a (mobile) return channel. Mobile telecom operators would like to enable high value services with minimum infrastructure investment. And both are competing for approximately the same group of customers - all of whom want these applications anytime, anywhere on low cost devices.
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Digitalisation and changing consumer behaviour are causing terrestrial broadcasters and mobile telecommunication operators to search for new business models and opportunities. Both want to provide new, breakthrough applications and devices. Broadcasters would like to offer interactive/data applications on mobile terminals, which would require a (mobile) return channel. Mobile telecom operators would like to enable high value services with minimum infrastructure investment. And both are competing for approximately the same group of customers - all of whom want these applications anytime, anywhere on low cost devices.
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Do the winning bids from Intel and Qualcomm indicate that the manufacturing sector will soon become major players in the European spectrum market? How did Ofcom's first use of its technology neutral SUR licences fare? In Sweden why was there such a big discrepancy between spectrum intended for 3G and spectrum intended for wireless broadband?
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The Ministry of Defence's eagerly awaited plan was launched on 30 May and is now open to consultation. It follows on from the 2005 Cave audit of spectrum holdings, which proposed that public sector spectrum be made available to other organisations, including industry.
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