The Situation in the Early 1980s: A Spectrum Allocation Opens the Possibility to Overcome the European Patchwork of Incompatible Systems At the World Administrative Radio Conference in 1979 (WARC ’79), a decision was taken to set aside a block of radio spectrum in the 900 MHz range for use in land mobile communication systems in Zone 1, which in the terminology of the Radio Regulations means Europe. Beyond this, little was said about how the spectrum should be used, such as the allocation to pub