3.1 Reactions to the objectives

Submitters largely approved of these goals. Some claimed that the criteria were too hard to measure and that the Ministry has not done enough work to evaluate its performance against the objectives. The intention of the discussion document was to gauge stakeholders’ opinions as to the appropriate objectives. The Ministry acknowledges that criteria for gauging how the RLR measured up to the objectives was not established as this was outside the scope of the discussion document. The Ministry considers that further work, in the form of an academic study into benchmarking spectrum valuation, should be considered to respond to stakeholder concerns