Spectrum management reflects many separate activities, including planning spectrum use, allocating and assigning spectrum licences, enforcing licence conditions, interacting with regional and international organisations. Regulators should establish performance measures and indicators for each of these acitvities. For example, an enforcement unit may have monitoring targets or a licensing department’s performance may be measured by the number of licences granted or the average amount of time taken to issue a license.
Such specific indicators can be separated from broader objectives relating to the key spectrum management role, which is deciding which frequencies should be put to use for what purposes. Accordingly, this section is divided into two parts:
1.3.1 High-level Economic Objectives
1.3.2 High-level Technical Efficiency Objectives
Economic objectives relate to ensuring that spectrum is used in ways which meet the country’s goals covering the efficient allocation of resources – that spectrum is employed by both private and public sector organisations in ways which meet the countries economic growth and other objectives. Technical efficiency objectives relate to the more specific goal of ensuring that service frequencies are used in ways which allow the maximum utilisation of the resource, avoiding, for example, both interference and unnecessarily large gaps (‘guard bands’) between adjoining users.
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New Technologies and Impacts on Regulation Module: Section 2.6.1, Objectives for Spectrum Management