{"id":7,"date":"2007-05-10T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T10:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2009-07-20T11:09:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T09:09:18","slug":"aviation-spectrum-for-sale-or-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Aviation Spectrum for sale or rent&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"Years of demanding that they be treated like any other business is about to come home to roost for UK airlines, because Ofcom, the telecomms regulatory agency is considering charging for acess to spectrum.\u00a0 Why is this so important?\u00a0 Because Ofcom UK is very\u00a0 much a thought leader in European telecommunications.\u00a0 Think of the auctioning of 3G spectrum.\u00a0\u00a0 There can be no doubt that other European regulators will be watching this experiment very closely.\u00a0 Treating airlines like phone companies, or anyone else that needs spectrum, and subjecting them to if not market forces, then at least comparative pricing based on opportunity costs is not exactly what\u00a0 I suspect that the airlines had in mind&#8230;\r\n\r\nA short article on this is available on the website.\u00a0 Here is the link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/articles.htm\">http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/articles.htm<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years of demanding that they be treated like any other business is about to come home to roost for UK airlines, because Ofcom, the telecomms regulatory agency is considering charging for acess to spectrum.\u00a0 Why is this so important?\u00a0 Because Ofcom UK is very\u00a0 much a thought leader in European telecommunications.\u00a0 Think of the auctioning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}