Spectrum Management Policy

Spectrum Master Plan

All organisations require clear strategy. Strategy requires an organisation to have a good view of its operating position today. It requires it to develop a series of choices or options for the future and to then evaluate these options to yield a plan. In spectrum management, the options are dependent on three things: the nation-state's plans in ICT and other related areas, events and activities in the international spectrum management world and investment plans of leading wireless developers.

All nation-states need plans. All nation-states need spectrum management plans. Some have an evolutionary strategy that perhaps leaves much to the decisions made in far-flung committees such as in the ITU. Others have more laissez-faire strategies and bow to the pressures of industry and investors locally. In reality, a spectrum management plan must consider all of these.

A Spectrum Management Master Plan is a comprehensive analysis of these three aspects of plans at a point in time in a nation-state's communications and broadcasting development. Wireless communications, broadcasting and the Internet are at a crossroads with many evolving technologies demanding more liberal approaches to spectrum access. Nation-states have huge opportunities to better use the spectrum: in some, supply is much greater than demand implying an under-utilised resource whilst in others there is true congestion.

InterConnect Communications has aided many NRAs to develop and adopt appropriate strategies for their local futures.