Opinion: Are the military about to give up some spectrum?

UK developments suggest the release or sharing of armed forces spectrum may be closer than is often thought. Using the military's own anti-jamming technologies may overcome some of the interference concerns, argues Richard Womersley.

There can be no doubt that demand for radio spectrum is increasing. Despite progress in making use of ever higher frequencies, supply of radio spectrum is now largely fixed. Furthermore, within the well-recognised 'sweet-spot' of the radio spectrum between approximately 300 and 5000 MHz where bandwidth and propagation are optimal for delivery of broadband and mobile wireless services, supply is now all but exhausted. The 'but' in this case being that a significant proportion of this sweet-spot spectrum is allocated to defence users and it is argued that they neither make optimal use of, nor necessarily need, all the spectrum they have.

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