1. Civil spectrum control objectives

The growing importance of radiocommunications has gone hand in hand with a considerable increase in the volumes of information to be transmitted, driven by advances in mobile digital technologies and wireless applications. These high value-added services are placing ever-increasing demands on radiocommunications system designers in terms of throughput and spectral efficiency, and on regulators in terms of frequency allocations.

In this way, the use of radio spectrum contributes to economic development and is also a source of revenue for states. In her introductory speech to the 2010 Spectrum Summit (see For more information), ^me Pilar del Castillo Vera, Member of the European Parliament, pointed out that the Union's activities directly dependent on radio spectrum represented 3% of Europe's overall GDP.