So after all the months and even years of preparation, lobbying and manoeuvring for position, the ITU’s World Radio Conference 2015 (WRC-15) ended on Friday after more than three weeks of deliberations. It achieved some delicate balancing acts and most of the interest groups which had been most at loggerheads in the run-up to the event pronounced themselves satisfied. There might have been a moment of hope, as each group put out its triumphalist statement, that this might signal a new era when mobile, satellite, broadcast and other major spectrum users decided to work together in the spirit of compromise which, of necessity, prevailed in Geneva. That was quickly over however. The end-notes to those same statements, and the interviews…