SIGLEAvailable at INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : DO 3236 / INIST-CNRS ... more SIGLEAvailable at INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : DO 3236 / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueFRFranc
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the tran... more The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. The amount of radio spectrum released by the transition to digital television is known as the digital dividend. Given the growing pressure on spectrum, as well as the social and political importance of television, the digital dividend has sparked intense debate between representatives of the media and advocates of other uses for spectrum—above all, the telecommunications industry. This paper considers how citizens and policymakers should approach the changes in the media and communication landscape, as television and broadband mobile internet compete for spectrum. Successful decisions about the digital dividend are measured in terms of benefiting consumers and ci...
Available at INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : DO 3235 / INIST-CNRS - Ins... more Available at INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : DO 3235 / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueSIGLEFRFranc
Wireless services will go through a major expansion in the next decade. The generally accepted ma... more Wireless services will go through a major expansion in the next decade. The generally accepted mantra is that this will provoke a need for an always more efficient usage of the radio spectrum. Major technological changes are under way, which will have to be combined with savvier management methods. The debate on adequate, future-oriented, spectrum management is currently reaching a turning point. A trend towards flexibility in the form of market mechanisms (auctions), was initiated in New Zealand, then the US in 1993, and expanded in a number of European and Asian countries in the early 2000’. It has been consistently formalised in 2002 by the FCC Spectrum Task Force Report in the US , the Martin Cave Report in the UK . The two reports translated into a comprehensive market-oriented spectrum management framework that has served as an underlying reference to subsequent policy initiatives in Europe since this date.It seems, however, this trend is encountering delays where it is alread...
In the spectrum sections of its "Proposed Changes" to the Review of the European Union ... more In the spectrum sections of its "Proposed Changes" to the Review of the European Union Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services, the European Commission establishes a coherent, comprehensive and original set of forward-looking spectrum policy principles. By emphasising the role of trading and market flexibility, technology and service neutrality, it departs from traditional,administrative spectrum management principles. But by stressing the need for a clear justification of exclusive usage rights, it differentiates itself from market-fits all propositions. Three issues should be examined to understand what kind of evolutions could occur: the prevention of interferences, harmonisation and standardisation, and lastly the weight of institutions. Technical progress in wireless, culminating in extended dynamic access, will mostly complement market mechanisms in fostering the efficient use of spectrum, as long as institutional factors do not inter...
This volume aims to contribute to finding ways and means of taking positive advantage of the oppo... more This volume aims to contribute to finding ways and means of taking positive advantage of the opportunities presented by telecommunications technologies. It examines the effects of economic developments on telecommunications in locations such as South-East Asia and Eastern Europe.
... It is based on the work carried out in the SPORT VIEWS (Spectrum Policies and Radio Technolog... more ... It is based on the work carried out in the SPORT VIEWS (Spectrum Policies and Radio Technologies Viable In Emerging Wireless Societies) research project for the European Commission (FP6) Key words: spectrum, new radio technologies, UWB, SDR, cognitive radio. ...
... An additional standard was required (instead of just using DVB-T) because of problems with th... more ... An additional standard was required (instead of just using DVB-T) because of problems with the devices' battery when associated with a recep-tion tuner. The DVB-T specification would drain the batteries very quickly if used for TV reception over a mobile phone. ...
SIGLEAvailable at INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : DO 3236 / INIST-CNRS ... more SIGLEAvailable at INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : DO 3236 / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueFRFranc
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the tran... more The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. The amount of radio spectrum released by the transition to digital television is known as the digital dividend. Given the growing pressure on spectrum, as well as the social and political importance of television, the digital dividend has sparked intense debate between representatives of the media and advocates of other uses for spectrum—above all, the telecommunications industry. This paper considers how citizens and policymakers should approach the changes in the media and communication landscape, as television and broadband mobile internet compete for spectrum. Successful decisions about the digital dividend are measured in terms of benefiting consumers and ci...
Available at INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : DO 3235 / INIST-CNRS - Ins... more Available at INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : DO 3235 / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueSIGLEFRFranc
Wireless services will go through a major expansion in the next decade. The generally accepted ma... more Wireless services will go through a major expansion in the next decade. The generally accepted mantra is that this will provoke a need for an always more efficient usage of the radio spectrum. Major technological changes are under way, which will have to be combined with savvier management methods. The debate on adequate, future-oriented, spectrum management is currently reaching a turning point. A trend towards flexibility in the form of market mechanisms (auctions), was initiated in New Zealand, then the US in 1993, and expanded in a number of European and Asian countries in the early 2000’. It has been consistently formalised in 2002 by the FCC Spectrum Task Force Report in the US , the Martin Cave Report in the UK . The two reports translated into a comprehensive market-oriented spectrum management framework that has served as an underlying reference to subsequent policy initiatives in Europe since this date.It seems, however, this trend is encountering delays where it is alread...
In the spectrum sections of its "Proposed Changes" to the Review of the European Union ... more In the spectrum sections of its "Proposed Changes" to the Review of the European Union Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services, the European Commission establishes a coherent, comprehensive and original set of forward-looking spectrum policy principles. By emphasising the role of trading and market flexibility, technology and service neutrality, it departs from traditional,administrative spectrum management principles. But by stressing the need for a clear justification of exclusive usage rights, it differentiates itself from market-fits all propositions. Three issues should be examined to understand what kind of evolutions could occur: the prevention of interferences, harmonisation and standardisation, and lastly the weight of institutions. Technical progress in wireless, culminating in extended dynamic access, will mostly complement market mechanisms in fostering the efficient use of spectrum, as long as institutional factors do not inter...
This volume aims to contribute to finding ways and means of taking positive advantage of the oppo... more This volume aims to contribute to finding ways and means of taking positive advantage of the opportunities presented by telecommunications technologies. It examines the effects of economic developments on telecommunications in locations such as South-East Asia and Eastern Europe.
... It is based on the work carried out in the SPORT VIEWS (Spectrum Policies and Radio Technolog... more ... It is based on the work carried out in the SPORT VIEWS (Spectrum Policies and Radio Technologies Viable In Emerging Wireless Societies) research project for the European Commission (FP6) Key words: spectrum, new radio technologies, UWB, SDR, cognitive radio. ...
... An additional standard was required (instead of just using DVB-T) because of problems with th... more ... An additional standard was required (instead of just using DVB-T) because of problems with the devices' battery when associated with a recep-tion tuner. The DVB-T specification would drain the batteries very quickly if used for TV reception over a mobile phone. ...
Governments in most countries face “...widespread public dissatisfaction around coverage, particu... more Governments in most countries face “...widespread public dissatisfaction around coverage, particularly outside urban areas.” (Ofcom, 2016). In a typical example, however, of the right hand ignoring what is being done by the left hand, some branches of Governments, or Agencies in charge of license assignments, tend to focus exclusively or primarily on maximising the fees they can derive from the spectrum auction procedures which govern spectrum assignment today, with only secondary attention being paid to the now widely observed limitations of this policy tool in achieving broader policy objectives. In the end, the present assignment procedures have not been able to incentivise the 1 The authors want to thank for their support in this research Chalmers University of Technology, Telecom ParisTech Graduate School of Engineering, and the colleagues who accepted to discuss previous versions of this position paper, at the European Commission, ARCEP, PTS, AGCOM, Qualcomm Inc., Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, Analysis-Mason, LS Telcom, PolicyTracker. The authors retain, however, full and exclusive responsibility for the positions expressed in the paper and the conclusions reached.
industry development in the expected manner. There is now a growing body of evidence suggesting that spectrum auctions as they are currently being conducted do not stimulate network investments.
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1 The authors want to thank for their support in this research Chalmers University of Technology, Telecom ParisTech Graduate School of Engineering, and the colleagues who accepted to discuss previous versions of this position paper, at the European Commission, ARCEP, PTS, AGCOM, Qualcomm Inc., Nokia, Deutsche Telekom, Analysis-Mason, LS Telcom, PolicyTracker. The authors retain, however, full and exclusive responsibility for the positions expressed in the paper and the conclusions reached.
industry development in the expected manner. There is now a growing body of evidence suggesting that spectrum auctions as they are currently being conducted do not stimulate network investments.