OfCom opens consultation for clearer signals, safer seas

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The UK’s communications regulator has opened a consultation on Maritime Spectrum Licences to align them with international practice and simplify processes, it says.

OfCom has made proposals in a consultation here, which closes on June 3, which aim ‘to ensure that the UK Maritime Spectrum Authorisation framework remains fit for purpose, supports technological developments, and continues to promote the safe, efficient use of radio communications at sea’.

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