In radiocommunications licensing, what does the public park concept mean?
With some kinds of radiocommunications it is possible to adopt a regulatory approach that allows users to share spectrum without formal frequency coordination between users — the ‘public park’ concept. Under the ‘public park’ concept, the planning objective is for all users to be able to access a small portion of the total resource (in this case a frequency band) and to share that resource in a way that requires minimal regulatory intervention. Such sharing usually requires the power of these devices to be kept well down. This approach avoids the need for ongoing individual frequency co-ordinations and the registering of technical details and locations of equipment for each new user. Access to the band by all potential users is then relatively unconstrained. To support this objective, the general conditions of operation (including technical conditions for equipment) that apply to all users are constructed to limit the risk of interference between users under most likely situations. Bec
