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Directors of the ITU Radiocommunication and Development Bureaus solicited proposals for a meeting on participation of countries, particularly developing countries, in spectrum management, a letter to ITU members said. The meeting June 6 and 7 will examine national frequency allocation…

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tables and spectrum redeployment, spectrum fees and the use of market mechanisms to allocate frequency bands, and accountability. The work, which was prompted most recently from the 2010 World Telecommunication Development Conference, is expected to result in a revised spectrum fees database for bands between 29.7 to 30 GHz considering new applications, results of auctions and “beauty contests,” a meeting document said. The work also aims to develop guidelines for putting frequency allocation tables in place, setting up spectrum fees for new applications and procedures for implementing market mechanisms in spectrum management, the document said. Guidelines also will be drafted for carrying out spectrum redeployment operations.