My point was not about the need (or lack thereof) of spectrum
management, but rather the need (or lack thereof) of an international
office for handling spectrum slots.
The kind of allocation management you mention is an easier one to
tackle. Radio allocation for mobile networks is distance-restricted, it
only has to deal with local frequencies unless your are installing
mobile antennas in border towns.
If countries can be good neighbors you don't need an elephantine
international bureaucracy to manage these type of spectrum allocation.
Where I live this has been the case, all cross-border frequency issues
were fixed through peer to peer negotiation between operators.
As for spectrum sales, well, again it's not the ITU who's doing it, the
regulators are.
Large-scale, global, spectrum management remains an issue (i'm thinking
about talk radio, marine/aircraft/satellite communications, navigation
aids and similar applications), but, IMO, is a less demanding/critical
task than it used to be, and thus the workload for the ITU-R should be
less than it used to be.
cheers!
~Carlos
On 1/2/13 3:34 PM, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote:
Carlos M. Martinez
Radio spectrum allocation was a critical task at the time (it still is,
although the world doesn't depend that much on it anymore),
Given the ever increasing number of mobile devices, one could argue that the
world
has never been more dependent on radio spectrum allocation. It's still not
that long since
the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer made over £20 billion from selling
spectrum, something
possible since international treaties had agreed on its purpose for 3G
communications.