Changing the Face of Spectrum Management

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Changing the Face of Spectrum Management
Francisco Carlos Giacomini Soares
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Background

• Radiocommunication Spectrum
• Limited
• Scarce Resource Unique
• State-owned.
• Carefully managed.
• Valuable/Chargeable.
• Efficient and universalized use.

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Challenges

• New Technologies Are a Permanent Challenge to
  Regulators
• Demand for new bands.
• Sharing with other services.
• Spectrum value.
• Convergence of different applications.
• Worldwide harmonization.

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Trends

• Implementing flexible technical regulations.
• Streamlining rules to allow services evolution.
• Spectrum sharing.
• Encouraging coordination among users
  (interference).
• Spectrum trading (free negotiations, by
  vouchers).

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Efficient Spectrum Usage

• Spectrum usage measurement can be represented by
  the amount of spectral space denied.
• Spectral space denied is the area whose use is
  denied to other systems by the existing system.
• Spectral space denied is measured in terms of
  denied frequency band, geographical space and
  time.

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Service-specific licenses Past Scenario
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Convergence Current Scenario
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Convergence Upcoming Scenario
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Hybrid Licensing Regime
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Unique General Authorization
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Conclusion

• There is a trend toward making spectrum
  regulation more flexible in the upcoming
  scenario of a converged licensing regime
  (technology-neutral and service-neutral) .
• On the other hand there will be an increasing
  demand for a more efficient use of the radio
  frequency spectrum.
• BWA, triple play services, WiMAX, WiFI, IMT 2000
  and beyond, etc will most likely be the key
  elements of this converged and flexible
  environment.