Presenting the Government’s proposal on the bill, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Duc Long said that the law aims to create favorable conditions for the effective mobilization, distribution and use of radio frequencies and satellite orbits, and ensure that the Law on Radio Frequencies matches relevant international laws and conventions.
The bill supplements two articles of the existing law and makes adjustments to 15 others, Long said.
Representing the verification agency, Chairman of the N.A. Committee for Science, Technology and Environment Le Quang Huy said that contents of the bill are in line with regulations of the Constitution 2013, ensuring its coherence with relevant international laws and conventions in which Vietnam is a member.
Huy suggested that regulations on the limit of total bandwidth for each organization/enterprise should be added to the bill to prevent the monopoly, inefficient use, and waste of frequency resources.
However, some members of the N.A. Standing Committee held that the limitation may affect businesses’ market development activities as well as the rights of consumers.
N.A. Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue underlined that radio frequencies are national property that have a rising value, especially during the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He stressed the need for strict, open and transparent management of radio frequencies to optimize its values in socio-economic development, security and defense.
Regarding the limit in the total bandwidth that an organization or business is allowed to use, the N.A. leader said that it is necessary to clarify the principles and criteria of frequency allocation to ensure equality and transparency, thus encouraging competition and avoiding waste in national resources.
Members of the committee also discussed a number of important issues of the bill, including the method of granting radio frequency use licenses, and radio frequency allocation planning and bidding.
Source: VNA