- Developing UK spectrum strategy.
- Overseeing a programme of
economic and market demand studies.
- Co-ordinating spectrum use
with other government departments, in particular the MoD, through leadership
of interdepartmental committees on spectrum strategy, national frequency
planning, frequency clearance and radio site clearance.
- Acting as a "spectrum
wholesaler"; allocating frequencies to specific radio services
or applications.
- Representing UK in international
discussions on frequency harmonisation, spectrum engineering and technical
standards harmonisation.
- Co-ordinating international
spectrum use and providing advice on International Radio Regulation.
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- Authorising use of the
radio spectrum by individual users through licensing or exemption.
- Acting as a "spectrum
retailer".
- Designing licence terms
and conditions, e.g. on radio frequency, technical requirements and
operating details, on how our customers may use radio without causing
interference to others.
- Developing and implementing
spectrum pricing policy.
- Authorising or overseeing
use of radio equipment by licensing or licence exemption, and formulating
the technical and operating standards for the use of radio equipment.
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- "Keeping the spectrum clean"
- education in correct radio use and dealing with interference in accordance
with priorities set by ministers,
- Local services for local
customers - issuing local licences and inspecting installations to ensure
they comply with licence conditions and so are unlikely to interfere
with other users.
- Interference investigation,
monitoring and enforcement.
- Monitoring and technical
support - 24 hour monitoring to track down sources of harmful interference
reported by UK radio users and overseas organisations.
- Dealing with complex measurement
and interference work across the whole radio spectrum. The Agency's
NAMAS-accredited EMC and interference laboratories at Whyteleafe provide
technical evaluation of the compatibility of radio systems.
- Enforcement and prosecutions
- Agency policy is to try to persuade radio users to operate legally.
Those who fail to do so and risk interference to authorised users or
who, like unauthorised broadcasters, deliberately flout the law, are
prosecuted.
- Co-ordinating the Agency's
research programme, which covers many aspects of spectrum management,
spectrum sharing, radio propagation and radio system planning.
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- Personnel management.
- Recruitment, personnel,
training and development and IiP accreditation.
- Finance, purchasing and
contracts, planning and budget management, day-to-day financial matters
and preparing year-end accounts.
- The interface between the
Agency and Radio Spectrum International Consulting, the joint venture
company set up to deliver IT services to the Agency
- Business process re-engineering,
benchmarking and quality management across the Agency.
- Accommodation issues, building
security, records management and Health and Safety.
- Internal and external communication
strategies, information and library services, the Agency's enquiry point,
press office, website, publicity and publications.
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