Spectrum Pricing in Europe

• Consideration by CEPT/WGRR/RR8

(fees & charges)

RR8 produced a report on pricing as an aide to CEPT member states chaired by L. Jeanty ERO

• members from Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Norway, Denmark, France and UK

Information gathered from withinEurope and beyond

considered economic factors, auctions,

incentive pricing and cost pricing

Models in force• fees = cost for each type of licence• fees = cost across sectors or in total allow some

differential pricing• fees set on incentive factors• use of beauty contest still requires fees setting• auctions-market determines price

Developments in Europe

• auctions happening in Netherlands, Germany, UK, Russia

and anticipated in France, Poland, Hungary

Beyond Europe

• Auctions in Australia, USA, NZ

Differential pricing within overall total cost regime

• increasingly being applied in Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal

Full Incentive

• Spectrum Pricing seriously studied in Netherlands, France and Denmark

(Possibly some Eastern European States too)

Report contains section on Secondary tradingand on refarming too.

• Netherlands and Switzerland most interested

• Further work anticipated on refarming

RR8 just starting work on PMR & Satellite ground station fees looking at reasons for wide spread of prices