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The ITU, Radio Regulations include
a frequency allocation plan table agreed by formal treaty, which
provides recommended
frequency allocations for all service types, and in some cases
providing several alternative options. These allocations are
to broad service types such as: fixed; mobile; satellite; or
broadcasting. They are not assignments to particular applications
within these types; such as a land mobile frequency for a taxi.
The ITU regulations are revised
every few years at a World
Radio Conference, WRC . Usually the changes are required to
provide for new kinds of services to share spectrum that is already
being used for certain defined purposes.
If not implemented with great care for the real needs of the existing
and new service providers, the changed regulations may harm certain
radio users and their planned investments. The Australian Government,
through the ACMA, permits representatives from all sectors of industry
and from
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individual companies or user organisations to
participate fully in the committee work that prepares the briefs for
these conferences. It also allows them to become members of the
Australian Delegation to the World Radio Conferences. Frequently this
representation is performed by consultants who are experienced in this
arcane international regulatory sphere.
Australia is an influential member of the Asia Pacific
Telecommunity, APT which acts as the Regional Group for the
Asia Pacific Region. Positions established in the Australian brief will
often also become common positions for all APT members, thereby
achieving a considerable a multiplier effect for the WRC.
At the WRC the consultant will attend working groups and sub committees
to explain its client's position in the overall context of the brief.
Government rules demand that such consultants do not depart from the
brief, and must be prepared to defend any other (unrelated) matter in
the brief if required to do so by the delegation leader.
The SpectrumWise founder was the
Chairman of the Australian WRC Preparatory Group for the WRCs in 2000
and 2003, and was Deputy Leader of the
Australian Delegation to WRC 2000. The firm is therefore extremely well
placed to develop and apply effective tactics to gain Australian and
Asia Pacific support for its clients WRC objectives.
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