Now that the general election on May 6th is approaching close, people will be busy with election predictions. Media will be full of election related news and the question of ever-growing burden of data on the broadband network will be lost amidst all this.
As the recent Ofcom data suggests, the data traffic on broadband network has increased by 200 percent in one year and there is no way it is going to reduce. In such a case it is important to find a solution to it before it starts affecting the quality of service really badly. Yet there is no strategy in place to tackle the problem and free up more spectrum for use by everyone.
One way to do it is to reallocate the spectrum which will allow others to use the spectrum which is going completely unused right now. However, before Ofcom can take any action regarding it, the Parliament has to make a law regarding it and that is where the problem lies.
The government has been very slow is moving towards spectrum reallocation and has still not put the plan before the Parliament. The next session of Parliament starts soon and it will be used to clear the more important business like passing the Digital Economy Bill. As a result, spectrum reallocation seems like a distant possibility now.
If it is not done soon, it is not likely to happen for a few years. The new government will have to be pushed from the beginning and it will take time to go through the plan and approve it. By then the problem may be become to difficult to control.
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