We also consider whether the US 700MHz auction has met its objectives; analyse the results of Ofcom's fourth spectrum auction and look at the proposal under consideration at the ITU to create a globally harmonised pilot channel for cognitive radio.
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After 65 days and 261 rounds of bidding the 700MHZ auction raised a record US$19.592 billion for 1090 licenses, or nearly twice the $10 billion reserve price set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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The European Parliament has expressed disquiet about the way the European Commission proposes to make frequency management more flexible to answer the needs of new technologies such as broadband and mobile services, although the Parliament supports the idea behind the move.
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After 65 days and 261 rounds of bidding the auction has provisionally raised a record US$19.592 billion for 1090 licenses. Most of the bidding for the important blocks of spectrum, and especially the C-Block which was available either as a single national licence or a handful of regional licences, ended at an early stage in proceedings. Bidding on small licences dragged proceedings out, but the auction rules stipulated the names of winning bidders would not be announced until after the auction closed.
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WRC-11 agenda item 1.19 calls on ITU-R "to study whether there is a need for regulatory measures related to the application of cognitive radio system technologies," and "to study whether there is a need for regulatory measures related to the application of software-defined radio." The WRC-11 may act on recommendations resulting from the studies.
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The discussions on CEPT's future began in May 2007 with an external consultants report. It pointed up the growing economic importance of spectrum and the gradual decline of the command and control approach, arguing that although CEPT's technical competence was widely recognised there may be a need for more economic expertise.
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While people are used to regularly changing their mobile phones, the same cannot be said of TV viewers. Some mobile networks offer free upgrades every 18 months, but people often wait for as long as a decade before buying new TV equipment. The result is that the latest, most spectrally efficient technologies enter the mobile market much quicker than the TV market.
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This month's "circular letter" from the ITU Radiocommunications Bureau (ITU-R) is an invitation to standardization bodies and ITU-R member governments and businesses to propose new radio interfaces for next generation IMT technology. IMT is the ITU global standard for mobile wireless communications. The circular letter on IMT-Advanced, "Request for submission of candidate Radio Interface Technologies (RITs) for IMT-Advanced radio air interface and subsequent evaluation of the candidate RITs," was expected in February, but publication was pushed back.
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The European Commission will make its first detailed proposal on how to use the digital dividend at the end of this year, according to principal administrator Philippe Lefebvre.
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The licenses being sold were in the higher frequency 10GHz to 40GHz band which the UK regulator describes as being "suitable for high-capacity wireless services."
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"Policy changes regarding the spectrum challenge the broadcasters' capacity to invest in original European programming," warned the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which commissioned the report, authored by Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates and DotEcon.
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In this issue we also consider whether the 700MHz auction will meet the FCC's objectives; the commercial deployment of UWB; and criticism of Ofcom's plans for terrestrial HDTV.
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