About SpectrumWise
SpectrumWise was formed to assist clients to benefit from certain policy and procedures of the Australian radio spectrum regulator that are intended to be pro competition and transparent, but can often be difficult to follow in relation to particular business plans and service applications.
Mr Barry Matson, the principal consultant and founder of SpectrumWise, is a radio engineering executive with long experience in government radio systems ranging from aviation ground equipment, through defence, broadcasting, space, and law enforcement applications to a leading role in the national spectrum regulator.
He completed his government service in 2003 after five years as the Executive Manager of the Radiofrequency Planning Group of the Australian Communications Authority.
During this time his Group established a range of measures intended to give Australian radio spectrum users more certainty in their passage through the inherently complex technical and policy labyrinth of national and international radio policy and regulations. Recognising that full advantage was not being taken of these measures he decided in early 2003 to leave the ACA and found SpectrumWise to guide clients through procedures relevant to their business planning needs.
Clients have included various satellite operators, law firms and the ACA itself. Recently the company was selected by the new Australian spectrum Regulator, ACMA, to conduct a review and audit of the radio spectrum used by government agencies in order to advise government whether this resource was being used with adequate economic efficiency and providing a suitable public benefit in relation to alternative commercial usage to which it could be put.
During 2008 and 2009 and 2010, the Development Branch for the Asia Pacific Region of the International Telecommunications Union, ITU D contracted Mr Matson to act as an expert adviser to several South Pacific Countries in the process of establishing new radio spectrum management regulators. In this capacity he has assisted Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, and, Papua New Guinea.
