Residential Broadband, Second Edition

Spectrum Management Issues

Spectrum management issues arise in part from the unknown factors, such as international relations and technological advancement. The following list reviews some management issues:

• International spectrum policy versus domestic spectrum policy— Radio waves cross international boundaries, and satellites, in particular, have large footprints. Therefore, no nation can make decisions on domestic factors alone. For example, the Iridium global telephone services uses frequencies in the range of 1610 MHz to 1660 MHz bands. This conflicts with work of European radio astronomy experiments in the 1610.6 MHz to 1613.8 MHz range. Similarly, the United States has been a major advocate of making additional frequencies available ...