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EU May Push for Competitive Spectrum Trading

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. I know this is off topic but... by Ichigo+Kurosaki · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this new /. design makes me dizzy

    1. Re:I know this is off topic but... by homeobocks · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I know, it's like "LOL i liek round bubblez."

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    2. Re:I know this is off topic but... by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "this new /. design makes me dizzy"

      What sucks is that 'light' really isn't 'light' anymore. I can understand the changes to the site, but I wish they had retained the spirit of light mode. I hate to think what people viewing this on portable machines is seeing.

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      "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

    3. Re:I know this is off topic but... by wilkinsm · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It takes alot to rouse this old bear (I've not posted a comment on Slashdot in years) but this new CSS scheme has done it. It does not seem fully baked to me - for example in IE the "Sections" tab is collapsable but the others are not ("Vendors" is a stupid tab anyway.) Worse missstep since the it.slashdot.org color scheme thing, which is at least somewhat better now in this version.

      Oh well, I guess I'll just be using RSS to read Slashdot going forward, unless all you long time people want to start a revolt...

    4. Re:I know this is off topic but... by Blahbooboo3 · · 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.
  2. First comment by punkrockguy318 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First comment. I never get first comment :)

    1. Re:First comment by Flimzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You can say that again!

  3. Re:Uh oh! by kfg · · 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