The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has published a discussion document reviewing New Zealand’s Radiocommunications Act 1989. The Act governs the licencing and use of all wireless technology in New Zealand. It has not been reviewed since the mid-1990s. Technological developments since then make a review timely.

The discussion document looks at issues including competition regulation, technical parameters on licences and interference management.

If you wish to find out more about the review, download the discussion document, make a submission, or attend a workshop forum, please go to the consultation page on the RSM website. We are asking for formal feedback by Wednesday 1 October 2014.

In addition to formal submission, we hope to gain informal feedback through the Geekzone forums. Geekzone users are encouraged to use this thread to discuss the Act review in general. In addition, there are two other threads covering

 

• Regional access to spectrum, which may be of interest to small-scale wireless ISPs for instance; and
• Ways in which dynamic spectrum access, spectrum sharing, and white space technology developments might be managed under the Act.