7 Amendments of Werner LANGEN related to 2008/2099(INI)
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the digital dividend opens up sufficient spectrum for broadcasters to significantly develop and expand their services and at the same time to take into account other potential social, cultural and economic applications, such as mobile broadband applications designed to overcome the so- called ‘digital divide’;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the potential benefits of a coordinated usage of spectrum in the EU in terms of economies of scale, as well as the need to make the best use of the digital dividend in order to avoid fragmentation, which leads to a sub-optimal use of this scarce resource and would jeopardise the development of mobile broadband services;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Encourages Member States to take into account the appropriateness of allowing unlicensed users access to the dividend, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises and the not-for-profit sector, and thus increase the efficiency of radio- radio-cluster spectrum use by concentrating such unlicensed unlicensed uses in the currently unused frequencies (‘white spaces’) outside the geographically limited areas covered by digital radio;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 12
12. Calls on Member States to develop, as quickly as possible, following a common methodology, national digital dividend strategies by the end of 2009mid-2009 at the latest; urges the Commission to assist Member States in the development of their national digital dividend strategies and to promote best practice at EU level by setting key deadlines for the release and allocation of the dividend and putting forward by the end of 2008 a framework proposal for the harmonised use of the dividend;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. In order to achieve a more efficient use of spectrum and to facilitate the emergence of innovative and successful national, cross-border and pan-European services, supports the coordination approach of the Commission, based on three different clusters of the UHF spectrum, taking into account the potential for radio interference arising from the co-existence of different types of networks in the same band and the existing authorisations;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Urges the Commission to undertakeconduct, in cooperation with the Member States, the appropriate technical and socio-economic studies to determine the size and characteristics of the sub-bands that could be coordinated or harmonised at Community level; these studies should take account of the fact that as a result of constantly developing technical possibilities the dividend is not static, and that instead the future introduction of new technical developments (such as DVB-T2 and MPEG4) should make it possible in the long term to split the UHF band equally between radio and mobile broadband services;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to submit, as soon as these studies have been completed and having consulted both the high-level Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) and the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations and taking due account of national specificities, a legislative proposal to the European Parliament and to the Council for the adoption of measures to reserve and coordinate at EU level common sub-bands of the digital dividend which are suitable for mobile broadband services; a first sub- band should be planned for the 790-862 MHz range, which should be expanded as soon as further frequencies are released, with a view to achieving the long-term objective of the equal division of the spectrum between radio and mobile broadband services;