Does spectrum policy ignore environmental issues?

There seems little evidence of spectrum regulators addressing the issue of saving energy, a dimension which could be particularly important in allocating the digital dividend.

Climate change "has become a critical issue" since the 2000 UK 3G auctions and should be part of the regulatory analysis of upcoming spectrum auctions, Nokia's James Page argues in an article, <a href=http://www.landmobile.co.uk/articles/2008/0608-jamespage.pdf>The Carbon Element</a>, published in a personal capacity in Land Mobile magazine. But the UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) has not yet assessed the carbon impact of different uses for digital dividend spectrum, and it is unclear whether it even has the authority to define the public interest in environmental matters, he said.

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