US follows UK lead on public spectrum

The US government has unveiled an ambitious strategy for managing federal spectrum that could ultimately include sharing, trading and the payment of user fees. But experts wonder whether it will ever be put into practice.

The Federal Strategic Spectrum Plan (FSSP) grew out of the Bush Administration's 2003 initiative on Spectrum Management for the 21st Century. Federal agencies were directed to identify their spectrum requirements for future technologies or services, describe how they intend to use the new technologies or services, and suggest spectrum-efficient ways to meet those requirements.

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