My priorities: new Commission head of spectrum talks to PolicyTracker

The digital dividend will be the key issue for Brussels spectrum regulators in the coming months, according to the new head of DG INFSO's Radio Spectrum Policy Unit.

Pearse O'Donohue (photo below) took over as head of the unit in mid-June from Ruprecht Niepold, who is now an advisor to the DG INFSO director general Fabio Colasanti. "Our major policy challenges are going to be the digital dividend, which has a high political profile, but also a number of dossiers that deal with non-electronic communications services use of spectrum, such as transport," he says. These issues are all due to be brought together as regulators work with the European Parliament and Council to develop a comprehensive policy framework. "We will be devoting time to all this over the next six months or so in order to give the new Commission and Parliament a clear plan for the major strategic issues in the third quarter of next year," he says. Elections for the new Parliament take place in June 2009.

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