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Digital Infrastructure - Spectrum allocation and management mechanisms
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Digital Infrastructure - Spectrum allocation and management mechanisms
Given the focus towards higher frequency bands and increasing competing demand from new and incumbent users, is a different model accommodating shared use of spectrum needed? What is the best mechanism for promoting shared use of spectrum?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - Spectrum allocation and management mechanisms
How effective have market mechanisms been in enabling efficient and effective use of spectrum, compared to the objectives when they were introduced? How do the UK’s spectrum allocation mechanisms compare to the rest of the world? What best practices for allocation can be adopted in the UK?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - Spectrum allocation and management mechanisms
Evaluate current spectrum annual licence fees: (i) do they effectively promote efficient allocation and use of spectrum? (ii) do they materially inhibit operator ability to invest in network upgrades? (iii) What lessons can be drawn from international practice, particularly on how charging for spectrum and network investment and coverage interact?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
Digital Infrastructure - Spectrum allocation and management mechanisms
Given the expected changes in future network deployments and upcoming consideration of spectrum bands: (i) what are the most efficient methods of allocating spectrum to maximise social and economic benefits? (ii) is the current framework of market mechanisms (auctions, trading, Administered Incentive Pricing (AIP) based licence fees) likely to continue maximising social benefits or will they need updating?
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, 2024
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