EU May Push for Competitive Spectrum Trading

anaesthetica writes "The Financial Times is reporting that Viviane Reding, the EU media commissioner, wants to spur a pan-European market through which companies could buy and sell cross-border access to the European spectrum regime, including frequencies used by TV, radio, mobile telephone and broadband services. Large European media companies are skeptical about the spectrum trading plan, saying both that there is no logic behind a pan-European telecom model, and that such a plan could interfere with satellite radio. Ms. Reding believes that the change would spur harmonization of the fragmented European telecom band allocation. This change is set to coincide with the 2012 switch from analog to digital TV broadcasting, when a significant portion of the spectrum will be freed up."

Anyone for monopoly?

[malsdavis]

So basically, the companies with the current monopoly are condemning a plan to try and gradually remove their monopoly. How Odd.

Spectrum Trading...

[Zx-man]

In eastern Europe, we still do trade Spectrums [wikipedia.org], although nowadays they aren't too competitive.