international perspectives new zealand’s radiocommunications act review
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International PerspectivesNew Zealand’s Radiocommunications Act Review
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Radio spectrum management in NZ
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• MRs are tradable property rights• Spectrum in MRs
– 471 MHz below 1 GHz– 929 MHz between 1 and 5 GHz– 3.6 GHz above 20 GHz
• In 2013/14, 97% of all licences were engineered by private sector
• Radiocommunications Act 1989 establishes– Management rights (MR) regime (2/3
of Act provisions)
– Radio licencing regime– General user licencing regime – Approved engineers regime – Disputes processes– Compliance and enforcement– Transitional provisions (1/4 of Act
provisions)
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NZ Act Review
• Key issues
– Flexibility vs certainty– Competition – Spectrum sharing– Interference
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FlexibilityTechnology neutral MRs
• Changes by Spark (formerly Telecom) under their 850 MHz MR :– AMPS – DAMPS– CDMA– Wide band CDMA
No regulator involvement
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The Act requires limited informationManagement rights
• Frequency boundaries, • Adjacent frequencies
emission limits • Power floor, and • Protection limit.
Spectrum licences
• Details of the licence holder• Transmission frequencies• Protection area• Term• Ability (or not) to modify the
licence and the permissions required
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Limited processes specified• Public Information Brochures
(PIBS) are non statutory documents setting out:– Band plans– Licencing rules – Allocation processes– Renewal processes– Requirements for the approved
radio engineers’ regime
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Competition1989• Market forces approach• Generic competition law
2000’s• Government policy used to shape
markets
2014• 700 MHz auction included ownership
restrictions and implementation requirements
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Spectrum sharing
• Currently consulting on TV white space rules
• Dynamic access technologies potentially problematic
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Interference management
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