Equitable access to spectrum in further development of the Geneva 2006 frequency plan

[摘要] Since the frequency plan of the Regional Radiocommunication ConferenceGeneva 2006 has come into force, many attempts have been made towards itsenhancement. The preliminary results, however, seem not to be compliant withelementary principles of distribution justice. Therefore, the planningprinciples which lead to the observed imbalance will be scrutinized.Furthermore it will be shown that the utilization of spectrum can beadvanced in a balanced way when the same (necessary) condition for"equitable access", which has been used by a group of middle Europeancountries for the construction of the original frequency plan, is applied toplan refinements as well. The necessary condition mentioned consists simplyin the parity of the number of coverages (constituted of disjointallotments) configured in the plan for each country. In order to be able toplan enhancements, the concept of coverage number has to be generalized tothe case of incomplete coverages of potentially overlapping allotments. Thecomputation of coverage numbers is straightforward and renders the conceptof coverage number parity a useful tool to be applied as a necessarycondition in testing a frequency plan variant for equitable access.

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