Opinion: one step forward and two steps back – the UK L-band auction

Michael Whittaker, the architect of Australia's liberalised spectrum management framework, warns that the self regulation proposed by Ofcom in 1.5GHz could allow companies to devalue their competitors' licences.

There has been some progress with spectrum right definition in Ofcom's 1.5 GHz spectrum auction consultation published 25 July 2007. For the first time Ofcom seems to be aware of the benefits of specifying a single propagation model as a basis for testing compliance with in-band, adjacent-area PFD (field strength) limits.

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