United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2002-06-11 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:GAO-02-814T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-814T P0b002ee18037adda f:d02814t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-814T machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-814T GAO-02-814T Radio frequency allocation Telecommunication International agreements Testimony A03564 As new technologies that depend on the radio spectrum continue to be developed and used more widely, managing the spectrum can grow increasingly challenging. The current legal framework for domestic spectrum management evolved as a compromise over the questions of who should determine the distribution of the spectrum among competing users and what standard should be applied in making this determination. Although initially, all responsibility for spectrum management was placed in the executive branch, this responsibility has been divided between executive branch for managing federal use and an independent commission for managing non-federal use since 1927 . The current shared U.S. spectrum management system has processes for allocating spectrum, but these processes have occasionally resulted in lengthy negotiations between the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) over allocation issues. The United States also faces challenges in effectively preparing for World Radiocommunication Conferences. NTIA has several activities to encourage efficient spectrum use by federal agencies, but it lacks the assurance that these activities are effective. NTIA is required to promote efficiency in the federal spectrum it manages, which included more than 270,000 federal frequency assignments at the end of 2000. To do this, NTIA directs federal agencies to use only as much of the spectrum as they need. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-814T/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-814T.htm GAO-02-814T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-02-814T Testimony GAO-02-814T; Telecommunications: History and Current Issues Related to Radio Spectrum Management; Radio frequency allocation Telecommunication International agreements Volume 36 Page 629 36 Stat. 629 Volume 37 Page 199 Volume 37 Page 302 37 Stat. 199 37 Stat. 302 Volume 44 Page 1162 44 Stat. 1162 Volume 106 Page 3533 106 Stat. 3533 Volume 113 Page 767 113 Stat. 767 Public Law 103-66 Public Law 105-33 Public Law 105-251 Public Law 106-65