International Radio Spectrum Management Beyond Service Harmonisation

Louis, Jerome

doi:10.1109/icetet.2011.14

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“…More specifically, it is argued that the level of protection required by one type of service, may not be suitable for another type of service (ITU-R, 1995). Moreover, Louis (2011) argues that the evolution of the ITU-R RR have always aligned with service harmonisation.…”

Section: Influence Of International Spectrum Regulations On Wapecsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless access policy for electronic communications services (WAPECS): Collision between theory and practice

El-Moghazi

Whalley

Irvine

2016

Telecommunications Policy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Fifty five years ago, Coase suggested in his seminal article "The Federal Communications Commission" that spectrum assignments should be treated in a similar way to property rights where market forces allocate these flexible tradable rights to users with the highest valuations for it. While Coase's idea was appealing and gathered huge momentum in academia scene, the practice did not show much success. Terms of use: Documents inOne of the first practical implementations was initiated in Europe in 2005 under the name "Wireless Access Policy for Electronic Communication Services (WAPECS)". WAPECS aimed at providing more flexibility in the European spectrum management framework by allowing using the spectrum on a technology and service neutral basis. At the international level, the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) have been keen to introduce more flexibility at the international service allocation framework via different measures.One of the main findings of this paper is the identification of different negative perceptions and disagreement on WAPECS and that WAPECS was driven mainly by the European Commission (EC) and few European countries. In addition, concerns over WAPECS include that the flexibility associated with WAPECS may contradict with spectrum use efficiency and that the responsibility of resolving interference moves from the regulator to operators.The assessment of WAPECS influence on the market shows that while WAPECS concept aimed mainly on removing the spectrum usage restriction for the industry, the later did not appreciate nor welcome that due mainly to the high cost and uncertainty associated with flexibility. On the other hand, the interviews revealed several positive impacts of WAPECS including removing technology designation from CEPT decisions.

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Section: Influence Of International Spectrum Regulations On Wapecsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless access policy for electronic communications services (WAPECS): Collision between theory and practice

El-Moghazi

Whalley

Irvine

2016

Telecommunications Policy

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“…Moreover, unless there is significant benefit for the national regulators to introduce flexibility and adopt spectrum trading, they will not be willing to take the risk and lose international recognition to their spectrum assignments. The concept of spectrum full flexibility is quite difficult to be applied from the technical viewpoint as it implies defining generic technology and service models (Louis, 2011). This is against the traditional service allocation undertaken in the ITU that is made based on sharing or compatibility studies assuming some form of operational environment.…”

Section: Spectrum Tradingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A second rule is that allocating each spectrum band to one or more radio services with equal or different rights (primary and secondary). This is based on the results of compatibility and sharing studies that are usually technology dependent (Louis, 2011). Stations 1 Regimes can be defined as sets of implicit or explicit principles (beliefs of facts, causation, and rectitude), norms (standards of behaviour defined as rights and obligations), rules (specific prescriptions and proscriptions for action), and decision-making procedures (prevailing practices for making / implementing collective choices) around which actors' expectations converge in a given area of international relations (Krasner, 1982).…”

Section: International Spectrum Management Regimementioning

confidence: 99%

World Radiocommunication Conference 12: Implications for the Spectrum Eco-System

2012

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Spectrum allocation is once more a key issue facing the global telecommunications industry. Largely overlooked in current debates, however, is the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC). Decisions taken by WRC shape the future roadmap of the telecommunications industry, not least because it has the ability to shape the global spectrum allocation framework. In the debates of WRC-12 it is possible to identify three main issues: enhancement of the international spectrum regulatory framework, regulatory measures required to introduce Cognitive Radio Systems (CRS) technologies; and, additional spectrum allocation to mobile service.WRC-12 eventually decided not to change the current international radio regulations with regard to the first two issues and agreed to the third issue. The main implications of WRC-12 on the spectrum ecosystem are that most of actors are not in support of the concept of spectrum flexibility associated with trading and that the concept of spectrum open access is not under consideration. This is explained by the observation that spectrum trading and spectrum commons weaken state control over spectrum and challenge the main principles and norms of the international spectrum management regime. In addition, the mobile allocation issue has shown the lack of conformity with the main rules of the regime: regional spectrum allocation in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) three regions, and the resistance to the slow decision making procedures. In conclusion, while the rules and decision-making procedures of the international spectrum management regime were challenged in the WRC-12, the main principles and norms are still accepted by the majority of countries.

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The Way Forward

El-Moghazi

Whalley

2021

The International Radio Regulations

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International Radio Spectrum Management Beyond Service Harmonisation

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Wireless access policy for electronic communications services (WAPECS): Collision between theory and practice

Wireless access policy for electronic communications services (WAPECS): Collision between theory and practice

World Radiocommunication Conference 12: Implications for the Spectrum Eco-System

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