ComReg spectrum strategy

On the 1st of July, Irish regulator ComReg published its Spectrum Management Strategy Statement for 2008 to 2010.

It is available as document No 08/50 on the ComReg website at www.comreg.ie.

In March last a draft of this strategy was published was published and public responses were sought. The Irish Radio Transmitters Society submitted a detailed response at the
time.

As a result of this, the final version just published now includes mention of the self-training and technical investigations aspects of experimental and amateur radio.

IRTS also succeeded in having included in the Strategy the upgrading of the amateur allocation at 7100 to 7200 kHz from secondary to primary status from March 2009 as agreed at WRC'03 as well as the general release of the 70 MHz band and access to channels in the region of 5 MHz.

These latter two issues were agreed between ComReg and the Society quite some time ago and have been held up pending the settling ofsome administrative details by ComReg. IRTS hope these facilities will be made available in the near future.