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Subj: [WIA-News] Government Announces Moves on Spectrum Reform
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From: VK7AX@VK7AX.#ULV.TAS.AUS.OC
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Government Announces Moves on Spectrum Reform
Date : 26 / 08 / 2015
Author : Roger Harrison - VK2ZRH
The Australian Government will implement all the recommendations of the
Spectrum Review conducted over 2014-15 by the Department of Communications
together with the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
Announced on 25 August, a tight program of changes to legislation and
regulations will be carried out over the next two years, commencing in
October and running through to mid-2017,
when the new regime is intended to start.
A single licensing system is the principal feature of what the Government
is calling the “new spectrum frameworkö.
The current apparatus, class and spectrum licensing regimes will disappear,
to be replaced with licences that set out the conditions of use for spectrum
access detailed in a set of key parameters.
Known as parameters-based licences, the core parameters to be included in
a licence will be set out in the proposed new radiocommunications act,
with the detail on these parameters to be developed by the ACMA in consultation
with users and set out in subordinate instruments.
The Spectrum Review recommended that likely core parameters might include
frequencies, geographical details, rights to renewal, terms for variation or
revocation, together with price and payment methods.
Broadcasters, commercial, defence and other government users, scientific,
aeronautical, maritime, private, amateur and other not-for-profit users,
as well as type-approved wireless devices, will all be affected by the new
spectrum framework.
A review of pricing for spectrum access is to commence immediately and continue
until mid-2016. The government foreshadows new pricing arrangements will commence
in mid-2017, along with the start of the new licensing system.
The next federal election may be held sometime between late-2016 to early-2017
The Minister for Communications’ media release is here. Link
http://www.minister.communications.gov.au/malcolm_turnbull/news/next_stage_of_spectrum_reform_to_commence#.VdzXxn2pUSV
The Department of Communications’ implementation timetable can be found here. Link
https://communications.govcms.gov.au/what-we-do/spectrum/spectrum-reform
(Sourced from the WIA Website)
http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2015/20150826-1/index.php
(Posted to the Packet Radio Network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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