Regional Issues for WRC-15 African Telecommunications Union Kezias MWALE Radiocommunications Coordinator Slide 1 of 22 a presentation to the RRS-15 Africa, Niamey – Niger, 20 – 24 April 2015 April 2015

1. Key issues for Africa at WRC ATU Workplan for WRC Status of preparations for WRC Recommendations and conclusions Slide 2 of 22 April 2015

Key issues for Africa at WRC-15 Slide 3 of 22 April 2015

Slide 4 of 24 June 2013 Agenda Item TopicKey Issues 1.1 Additional spectrum to mobile and identification thereof for IMT under mobile service No change for the 470 – 694 MHz band to allow for inhibited growth of the DTT services Identification of more spectrum for IMT growth while protecting and/or not negatively impacting on the growth of incumbent services Global harmonization while protecting African interests 1.2 Second digital dividend (694 – 790 MHz) Channeling plan Avoid a unique plan Technical parameters such as OOBE values Immediate harmonization, economies of scale, future harmonization Address the mobile broadband agenda by being able to implement DD spectrum as soon as possible

Slide 5 of 22 Agenda Item No. TopicKey Issues 1.11/ 1.12 Additional/extension spectrum to Earth exploration-satellite service in the band GHz/ 10 Ghz band To consider this together with AI 1.6/1.9- 1/1.9-2 (additional satellite allocations also in the bands 7, 8 and 10 GHz bands) Facilitate Earth exploration-satellite for data to help in climate change interventions April 2015

Slide 6 of 22 Agenda Item No. TopicKey Issues 1.5 Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) Protecting existing services Ensuring that Africa benefits from the new allocations/regulations; 9.2-X Global Flight Tracking (GFT) GFT to be part of the WRC-15 agenda Agreement on GFT solution that ensures that Africa (and other uncovered areas) is fully covered as soon as possible to improve Africa’s civil aviation safety April 2015

Slide 7 of 22 Agenda Item No. TopicKey Issues 1.6/ 1.9-1/ 1.9-2/ 1.10 Additional spectrum to fixed/mobile/m aritime-mobile satellite satellite service in the band 10 – 17 GHz; 7 and 8 GHz bands; GHz Protecting existing services Ensuring that Africa benefits from the new allocations; April 2015

Slide 8 of 22 Agenda Item No. TopicKey Issues 7 Improvements to Satellite procedures Improvement rules of rational use of satellite resources to reflect the special needs of developing countries; provisions/principles of PP Resolution 86 (Rev. Marrakesh, 2002) fully reflected in the RR (still on the issue of developing countries) Orbital slots for delivering international public services in developing countries (the CH) provisions to seek, among other things, exempting from contention of satellite orbital resources crucial to the (African) developing countries such as the Common Heritage. April 2015

Slide 9 of 22 Agenda Item No. TopicKey Issues Satellite services in the C-band (3400 – 4200 MHz) For each band, determining sustainable continued safe use by the aeronautical service Nano- and pico-satellites do not complicate the ‘already complicated’ satellite regulations take the needs of developing into account as expressed in Resolution 15 (Rev.WRC-03); Article 44 of the ITU Constitution; Resolution 71 (Rev. Guadalajara 2010) and the also Resolution 11 April 2015

Slide 10 of 22 Agenda Item No. TopicKey Issues 10 WRC-18 Agenda Items Improving the current WRC-18 preliminary agenda to reflect any improvements and also any appropriate new issues of interest to Africa April 2015

Slide 11 of 22 Agenda Item No. TopicKey Issues 8Footnotes5.’XYZ’: Deletion (or addition) of country names onto footnotes to improve harmonization April 2015

ATU Workplan for WRC-15 Slide 12 of 22 April 2015

Slide 13 of 22 The addressed topics 1.Role of ATU General Secretariat includes coordination 2.Role of AfriSWoG includes undertaking studies 3.Role of Sub-regions includes need for regional meetings 4.Role of Membership e.g national spectrum working groups, 5.Role of ATU WRC-15 Chapter Coordinators 6.Meeting schedule and expected outputs See APM15-2 (Khartoum meeting) report from April 2015

Status of preparations for WRC-15 Slide 14 of 22 April 2015

1. Three (03) Digital Migration and Spectrum Policy Summits (Nairobi and Accra) ◦ Adopted the second digital dividend subject to favorable GE06 modification to accommodate DTT spectrum requirements within MHz 2. Three GE06 frequency medication and coordination events (Bamako, Kampala and Nairobi) ◦ Favorable GE06 modification outcome to accommodate DTT spectrum requirements within MHz 3. Three (03) African WRC-15 Preparatory Meetings (Dakar, Khartoum, Abuja) ◦ Adopted African preliminary positions on the majority of the WRC-15 agenda items 4. Various sub-regional meetings for WRC-15 preparations 5. Active participation in the ITU preparatory work for WRC-15 Slide 15 of 22 April 2015

Slide 16 of 22 April 2015 Agend a Item TopicPreliminary views 1.1 Additional spectrum to mobile and identification thereof for IMT under mobile service Method A (No change) ; ; ; ; ; ; Methods A and C (either No change or IMT identification) ; ; ; ; Method C (IMT identification) ; ; ; None (no view as yet)

Slide 17 of 22 April 2015 Agenda Item TopicPreliminary views 1.2 Second Digital Dividend (694 – 790MHz) Issue A: Lower edge Method A: At 694MHz either by insertion in the Table of Frequency Allocations or footnote modification Issue B: compatibility between MS (IMT) and BS (DTT) Method B1: No additional compatibility measures to those contained in the GE06 Agreement. Issue C: compatibility between MS (IMT) and ARNS None because no African country is affected by this issue Issue D: Solutions for accommodating applications ancillary to broadcasting requirements D3, however, APM15-4 to endeavor to review the preliminary position taking into account the outcome of CPM 15-2.

Slide 18 of 22 … for all other agenda items, see the APM15-3 (Abuja meeting) report via uat.org/index.php/events/upcomi ng-events?id=57http:// uat.org/index.php/events/upcomi ng-events?id=57 April 2015

Slide 19 of 22 1.Various sub-regional preparatory meeting 2.4 th African preparatory meeting for WRC-15 (APM15-4), 20 – 24 July 2015, Nairobi – Kenya Other planned spectrum related events are: April 2015 No.TitleDatesVenue 1Spectrum Africa June, 2015 Nairobi (Kenya) 2 Workshop on development of national broadband plan October 2015 Maputo (Mozambique)

Recommendations and conclusions Slide 20 of 22 April 2015

Slide 21 of 22 1.Active preparation at national and sub-regional level 2.Active participation at the 4 th African preparatory meeting for WRC-15 3.Actively participate in the work of ITU Study Groups and ITU WRC-15 preparatory process such the 3rd ITU Inter-regional WRC-15 preparatory workshop scheduled for 1-3 September See ATU website for WRC-15 preparatory meeting reports, scheduled meeting and other issues: and the Conference Preparatory Meeting website of ITU for CPM-15 Reportwww.atu-uat.org April 2015

1. Africa can build on the success story of WRC-07 and WRC-12 for yet another success at WRC Active participation by administrations and sub-regions is crucial to yet another success at WRC-15 from the African view 3. ‘working together we can do more’ (RSA) Slide 22 of 22 April 2015

thank you Slide 23 of 22 Kezias MWALE Radiocommunications Coordinator April 2015