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Session #59 NRR Working Group Ad Hoc Committee Closing Report January 15, 2009

Scope of the Committee The purpose is to analyze supplementary functionalities for civil and professional applications –LMR applications (e.g. Public safety, company & transportation) –Airport communications systems, surveillance, backhauling The Committee is focused on the following items –High resilience and robustness –Increased reliability level –High security levels –Spectrum issues –Very high speed mobility –Dynamic group management Increase the market share for globally

Activities of the week 1 session during the week –Tuesday evening (7:10 – 9:50pm) –Attendees : up to 27 Opening and administrative aspects –Approval of the Agenda –Appointment of a secretary (Ranga Reddy) –Review of the Patent Policy –Review of the Opening Report

Activities of the week Presentation of 3 contributions –Public Safety usage model (C80216nrr-09_010) –Backhauling usage model (C80216nrr-09_009) –Public Safety bands in the US under 1GHz (C80216nrr-09_008) Discussion on the NRR Draft Report –Working document (C80216nrr-08_004r1)

Planned activities In-between session #59 and #60 –Discussion on the reflector –One conference call has been scheduled 11th of February :00am EST