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Option one – open access with user coordination
Specifications
| Type of licence | General User Licence1 |
| Permitted technologies |
WiMAX |
| Number of licences | Not applicable |
| Area of licences | Not applicable |
| Eligibility criteria | Some or all of the core eligibility criteria (see earlier para) |
| Technical and usage rules | Core technical and usage rules (see earlier para) |
| Application process and requirements | Registration of base sites with Registrar of Radio Frequencies |
| Allocation process: initial | None |
| Allocation process: new entrants | None |
| Usage requirements | If spectrum not in use then someone else can use. |
| Period of licence and renewals | Not applicable |
| Enforcement and policing | Normal RSM processes2 |
| Resource charge or fees | None. (However a fee could be charged if radio or spectrum licences were used instead of general user licences). |
Advantages
- Best meets overall “spirit” of a commons-type managed park.
- Administratively simple.
- Low level of cost and fees.
Disadvantages
- Potential issues with quality of service, especially in high population metropolitan areas and over time (with unlimited entry).
- Possibility of users being unable, or refusing, to cooperate with each other in this situation.
- Limited range of permitted technologies to maintain quality of service.
1A further alternative would be to issue radio or spectrum licences that have similar characteristics as general user licences (e.g. available to all-comers). Inter alia, this would allow the imposition of fees.
2These comprise infringement fees, fines, warnings, legal action, and, as appropriate, revocation of licence
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Last updated 18 October 2007
