Spectrum Managment
Spectrum
Management
Spectrum
Management is essential for maintaining access to radio spectrum to all users.
The office of SM is responsible for the frequency planning; coordinating
allocations assignments, regulating and administering of the use of radio
frequencies; and the monitoring and enforcement procedures.
It is further responsible for establishing regulations, frequency fees
structure, technical parameters and standards governing the use of each band
ensuring that current international regulations are met.
Frequency Allocation Strategies
The use of radio spectrum is critical to Uganda's communications and indeed the
country's economy. The use of radio frequency spectrum is constantly increasing
with new services in the market to the advantage of technological changes.
UCC is putting in place spectrum management policies that must be flexible and
responsive to the needs of the market, recognising that each class of spectrum
user has different requirements. For example, promoting the use spectrum
-efficient technologies, such as narrow band transmission, trunking between
cells with high mutual traffic loads and digital signalling, can sometimes
relieve crowding in the mobile radio frequencies.
The rise of competition in the restructured telecommunications and broadcasting
sectors in Uganda is presenting new challenges in the way the radio frequency
spectrum is manage
Here below are the applications forms for the various services: --
·
Application
Forms For Radio Communications
·
Application
Forms For Broadcasting Services
Here below are some useful links related to Spectrum Management at UCC
·
Usage of Access
Bands as At 31 July 2012
·
National Table
for Frequency Allocations
·
Guidelines for
the 5GHZ Band
·
Technical Forms
for Two-Way Radio Communication
·
VSAT
Authorization Requirements