PTS Spektrum Policy - PTS-VR-2006:2
12/10/2006
Decisions made by the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) contribute greatly to how various stakeholders can develop their operations, both nationally and internationally. These stakeholders require predictability to enable both shortterm and long-term initiatives within technology and the development of different services and products.
In order to create such predictability, a number of different activities have been implemented (and are being implemented on an ongoing basis) to further assure the quality of the authority's operation. One of these activities is to develop steering policy documents on important issues – both for the present and the future.
In this document PTS presents long-term objectives, basic principles, policy and medium-term objectives for spectrum management in Sweden. The authority considers that spectrum should be administered in such a way that it provides the greatest possible level of use and social benefit, to the extent that this promotes innovation, the development of technology and a broader range of wireless-based services. A number of points have been formulated with the aim of achieving this, among others, that:
- Licences to use radio transmitters should be as technology and serviceneutral as possible
- When selection procedures are required, auctions should preferably be applied
- Where there is little risk of harmful interference and there are no other impediments, licence exemption should be introduced