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2 I The 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference: Technology and Policy Implications
For 4 weeks in February 1992, delegates from around
the world met in the Palacio de Congresos in
Malaga- Torremolinos, Spain for the 1992 World
Administrative Radio Conference.
ITU-member countries periodically gather in
World Administrative Radio Conference (WARCs).
The latest conference, the 1992 World Adminis-
trative Radio Conference (WARC-92), took place
in Torremolinos, Spain over the month of Febru-
ary 1992. Among other issues, WARC-92 ad-
dressed frequency allocations for a wide range of
existing and emerging radio services and sought
to define the regulations that will govern them.
Despite the growing role wireless services
play, the world of international radiocommunica-
tion policymaking is largely removed from public
view. The institutions and procedures that guide
the development and coordination of wireless
services worldwide have long been the province
of engineers-not politicians or diplomats. Today,
however, as the frequencies used for radiocom-
munication become increasingly congested, the
problems of regulating international uses of the
radio spectrum are becoming progressively more
complex. And as the connections between radio-
communications, international trade and compet-
itiveness, and national security have becomeclearer, these problems have begun to draw more
high-level attention from American and foreign
policymakers.
REQUEST FOR THE STUDY
In November 1991 the Office of Technology
Assessment (OTA) released a background paper,
The 1992 World Administrative Radio Confer-
ence: Issues for U.S. International Spectrum
Policy.'That paper examined the technologies
and issues to be considered at WARC-92, dis-
cussed the international and domestic context for
WARC-92 preparations, and analyzed the U.S.
process of conference preparation.
To complete the analysis of WARC-92 begun
in that paper, the House Committee on Energy
and Commerce and the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation requested
that OTA prepare a follow-on study that would
examine the outcomes of WARC-92 and their
implications for U.S. radiocommunications pol-
icy. Noting the importance of international radio
frequency allocations to emerging and estab-
lished radiocommunication services and domestic
industries, the Committees requested that OTA
assess the relative success of the U.S. proposals to
WARC-92 and analyze the potential impacts that
the conference's decisions might have on domes-
tic radiocommunication services and policymak-
ing, the international competitiveness of the
United States in new radio services, and the
ability of the United States to achieve its diplo-
matic and foreign policy goals.
To answer these questions, OTA focused its
analysis in three areas:
1. What decisions were reached at WMC-92?
What implications will these decisions have
on the development of new radio-based
technologies and services in this country?
How will the decisions of WARC-92 affect1 U.S. Congress, Office of Thchnology Assessment, The 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference: Issues for U.S. International
Spectrum Policy-Background Paper, OTA-BP-TCT-76 (Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing office, November 1991). Hereafter
"O'IX, WARC-92,"
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