{"id":12826,"date":"2015-07-06T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=12826"},"modified":"2015-07-06T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:28:42","slug":"uk-spectrum-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2015\/07\/06\/uk-spectrum-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Spectrum Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In March 2014, the Prime Minister, David Cameron announced the UK Spectrum Strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-culture-media-sport\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Culture, Media and Sport<\/a> (DCMS) has subsequently given significant prominence to the industry-led <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techuk.org\/about\/uk-spectrum-policy-forum\" target=\"_blank\">UK Spectrum Policy Forum<\/a> (UKSPF) which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techuk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">techUK<\/a> is facilitating.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum has been established as a sounding board to Government and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> on future approaches on spectrum with a view to maximising the social and economic value from the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister has stated the ambition to double &#8220;the economic benefits of spectrum to UK companies and consumers from roughly \u00a350 billion today, to \u00a3100 billion in 2025&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Spectrum Policy Forum, open to all users of spectrum, is the main vehicle for harnessing user insights and informing these policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>On 30 June, Graham Murchie, RSGB Chairman and Murray Niman, Chairman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/committees\/spectrum-forum\/\">RSGB Spectrum Forum<\/a> presented to the UKSPF the case for amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/ukspf\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">www.rsgb.org\/ukspf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The UKSPF will be completing a report that will go to DCMS later in 2015 and this will include the benefits of amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum recognises that, almost by definition, amateur radio is not focussed on economic gain but the social benefits are significant.<\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent example of how the RSGB works \u2018behind the scenes\u2019 to help ensure the future of amateur radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2014, the Prime Minister, David Cameron announced the UK Spectrum Strategy The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has subsequently given significant prominence to the industry-led UK Spectrum Policy Forum (UKSPF) which techUK is facilitating. The Forum has been established as a sounding board to Government and Ofcom on future approaches on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}