The Hong Kong government started reviewing its approach to spectrum back in October 2006 by inviting responses to a specially commissioned consultants' report. Predictably the response from the Commerce, Industry and Technology Bureau doesn't go as far as the consultants suggested, but it continues current moves away from the command and control approach and will also increase transparency for spectrum users.
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It will be the first time passengers on a commercial airline will be able to use their own mobile phones onboard an aircraft – in this case a Boeing 767 flying domestic routes.
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Many scientists argue that we can only see the world as a series of metaphors. We understand new things by comparing them to our existing understanding or experience. When we're sad we say we're feeling down. Of course it's our mental state not our altitude which has changed, but does it make any difference? We're miserable just the same. And more to the point for PolicyTracker readers, does this need to understand the world metaphorically make any difference to the development of spectrum policy?
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Since the adoption of the Communications Act 2003, Ofcom has had a statutory obligation to exempt from licensing radio equipment whose use is unlikely to cause undue interference. No legal limit is set on the amount of spectrum used by such equipment, yet the 2005 Spectrum Framework Review (SFR) asserted that: "little additional spectrum will be needed in the foreseeable future [for license exempt use], growing to 7 per cent of the total spectrum... As a maximum, then, an additional 250MHz or so of spectrum might be needed for license-exempt use... Expanding beyond [this amount] would result in unused spectrum..."
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A recent gathering of the world's leading experts in cognitive radio was notable for two things. Firstly, the level of interest from the commercial sector and secondly the regulatory, commercial and business obstacles which are still to be overcome.
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Ofcom's new proposal document and consultation, the Licence-Exemption Framework Review (LEFR), has been welcomed by consultants and stakeholders as a forward-looking and well-thought-out exercise which will provide a lead for spectrum licence exemption in Europe and around the world.
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The trial coincides with an IEEE conference being held in Dublin and is unique because several different types of cognitive radio and software defined radio systems are sharing a limited range of frequencies. The simulation is also breaking new ground by using commericial frequencies under a special 'test and trial' licence granted by the Irish regulator, ComReg.
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