Frequency Assignment
The result of spectrum management is ultimately frequency assignment. A completely free market approach would auction spectrum and permit a secondary market. However, some interests would find it difficult to participate in auctions. Such interests would include amateur radio, scientific research, and public safety. For example, it would be possible for your local police department to bid for spectrum like everyone else, but the costs would conceivably increase and a certain amount of chaos could ensue in the interim. Hence, the federal government legislatively has set aside frequencies for these public uses.
Other factors impinge upon service rules. For example, radiolocation and radionavigation and shipborne transmissions ...
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