Govt approves Rolling Spectrum Strategy

Our Correspondent

The federal government has approved a three-year “Rolling Spectrum Strategy 2020-2023 to ensure faster telecom network speed.

Moreover, this is the main goal of the Spectrum Master Plan. Meanwhile, the government incorporated international best practices applicable to Pakistan to develop a report.

Furthermore, the Spectrum Master Plan provides a future roadmap for spectrum allocation as well as spectrum-related policy reviews to take place between 2020 and 2023.

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The report has helped the Ministry of IT & Telecom (MoIT&T), Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), and Frequency Allocation Board (FAB) in formulating the 3-year rolling Spectrum Strategy – which is a key area highlighted in the Telecommunications Policy 2015.

The publication of the spectrum roadmap helps commercial operators with their network planning investments. It is crucial to recognize that the pace of change in the industry is rapid. It aims at providing transparency and certainty to the industry.

There is a need to review the plan (every 3 years) to ensure that the plan continues to be relevant.

The government has prepared a report with the collective efforts of MoIT&T, PTA, and FAB. It also incorporates outcomes of the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) World Radio-communications Conference (WRC-19) in the report.

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