EU May Push for Competitive Spectrum Trading

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday June 5, 2006 @03:03PM from the pinch-of-free-trade-eye-of-newt dept.

anaesthetica writes "The Financial Times is reporting that Viviane Reding, the EU media commissioner, wants to spur a pan-European market through which companies could buy and sell cross-border access to the European spectrum regime, including frequencies used by TV, radio, mobile telephone and broadband services. Large European media companies are skeptical about the spectrum trading plan, saying both that there is no logic behind a pan-European telecom model, and that such a plan could interfere with satellite radio. Ms. Reding believes that the change would spur harmonization of the fragmented European telecom band allocation. This change is set to coincide with the 2012 switch from analog to digital TV broadcasting, when a significant portion of the spectrum will be freed up."

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Re:First comment by Flimzy · 2006-06-05 15:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You can say that again!
Re:Uh oh! by kfg · 2006-06-05 16:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Car analogy, quick!

A car's fuel pump is like your heart and its carb is like your lungs. The Model T Ford didn't have a fuel pump, positioning the gas tank higher than the carb and relying on gravity for fuel flow. That meant that on particularly steep uphills fuel flow could actually stop. Drivers would have to climb them in reverse.

You would think this would be a major disability, but I knew a man who drove a Model T all his life; and yet this man could play the banjo as well as anyone I ever knew.

Carthago delenda est!

KFG
Re:I know this is off topic but... by Blahbooboo3 · 2006-06-05 16:06 · Score: 1, Offtopic

(I've not posted a comment on Slashdot in years)

I have to cry Shenanigans!!:) According to your Slashdot profile http://slashdot.org/~wilkinsm , this is not the case.