Regional Information Meeting and Workshop related to the RRC-06 for the administrations of the African countries Dakar, Senegal, April 2005 Salient issues related to the first planning exercise and the production of the draft plan Pham Nhu Hai Radiocommunication Bureau

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Outline Input requirements Reference situation Publication of input data Publication of results of planning exercise Administrative declarations Regulatory issues

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Input requirements – First PX Deadline - 28 February 2005 –84 administrations submitted digital requirements –36 administrations did not submit 32 in Africa 2 in Europe 2 in RCC

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Some statistics (in progress) 1212 files notices –2842 DS1 –1735 DS2 –20102 DT1 –32612 DT2 –5922 DA1

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Validation and correction Still in progress Approximately 30% of the notices require correction

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Common errors Origin of analogue of assignment wrongly referenced or not exists! Geographical coordinates Duplicate identifiers Incoherent SFN ID

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Common errors.. Non-matching maximum effective height Radiation pattern not normalised Allotments notified without allotment areas No value for frequency block or acceptable channel

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Common errors.. Crossing segments in the definition of sub allotment areas Wrong file format!

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Validation of input requirements In progress BR to write to administrations in required 30 May 2005 at the latest, requirements validated and corrected PXT to carry out the first planning exercise

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Reference situation CR/230 of 17 December 2005 Broadcasting assignments –ST61 and GE89 assignments unless indicated NOT to be taken into account –RCC lists –MIFR by 31 Dec 1989 Non- duplicates indicated NOT to be taken into account

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Broadcasting reference data 120 administrations concerned All BT excluded : AUT, BEL, D, DNK, EST, F, FIN, G, HNG, HOL, I, LIE, LTU, LVA, NOR, POR, S, SUI –HRV (1154 out of 1272) –IRL (all UHF and < 100 kW in VHF –KEN (BT above 62, 155 out of 417)

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Other services 40 administrations concerned Number of assignments of Categories I and II: ~8996. Number of assignments of Category III: ~3170.

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Other services reference data 7 administrations excluded their assignments: TUR, POL, DNK, E, MDA, NOR, D. 8 administrations submitted R06 notice: BEL, BLR, F, G, RUS, UAE, UKR, UZB. –UAE and UZB didn ’ t submit Service type code.

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Other services… ISR requested the inclusion of their assignments, but not provided R06 notices. KEN (no existing assignments), CME (R06 data for assignments outside the frequency bands).

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Other services 6 administrations having AR 11 notices not yet published in part 2 or 3 of the BR IFIC: BLR (13), F (4), JOR (541), RUS (336), UKR (333), UZB (28). 8 administrations having assignments of category III: ARM (3), BLR (129), IRN (28), ISR (777), JOR (1168), KGZ (13), RUS (1021), UZB (28).

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Other services No information concerning the Service Type Code in response to BR circular and individual letters was received so far from: 23 administrations (ARM, ARS, BHR, COD, CYP, EGY, ETH, GRC, I, IRN, ISL, JOR, KGZ, KWT, LBY, MOZ, MRC, OMA, POR, QAT, TJK, TZA, USA).

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Publication of input data - first PX 31 May 2005 –CD-ROM + software to be sent to all administrationssoftware –Input data available on ITU website Download software View if internet connection available

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 The first planning exercise PXT to carry out planning exercise and other studies –Compatibility analysis –Synthesis Preliminary results –Submitted to IPG (4-8 July 2005) –Published on CD-ROM and ITU website

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Publication of results – first PX 15 July 2005 –CD-ROM + software to be sent to all administrations –Input data available on ITU website Download software View if internet connection available

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Digital requirements coverage!!

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 For one channel!

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Analogue BC coverage

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Digital requirements

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Analysis results

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Interference analysis

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Interference from analogue BC

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Synthesis results Search for requirements that got a channel by specifying selection criteria Identify a requirement that did not get a channel and display surrounding requirements that did get a channel

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Synthesis results Identify a geographic area or a set of geographic areas and display all requirements that got a channel

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 More features Link input and output software Compatibility calculations on the run! Display pre-coordination data and administrative declarations On-line Export data to other formats

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Analysis of results – first PX Administrations have 3.5 months to –Analyse results –Coordinate with neighbouring administrations –Prepare input requirements for production of the draft plan. –Submit administrative declarations

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Production of the draft Plan 31 Oct 05 – reference situation date and deadline for submission of input requirements. 31 Jan 06 – publication of input data Feb 06 – IPG second meeting 28 Feb 06 – publication of the draft plan 2 months – administrations to analyse

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 The second session 15 May – 16 June 2006 The NEW agreement!!!

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Coordination Pre-coordination – submitted with requirements Administrative declarations –Two requirements from one or two administrations to be compatible –Two requirements from one or two administrations to be incompatible

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Admin declarations… Administrative declarations –A requirement may use a particular channel. –A requirement may NOT use a particular channel The mechanisms should be preferably –Simple –practicable

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Regulatory issues Issues –Transition period –Modification procedure –Flexibility to accommodate new technology Forums –Regional groups –SWG1 New Agreement Revise ST61 and GE89 –RPG – December 2005

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Don’t forget regulatory issues Must participate Must follow the issues Don ’ t wait till second session

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Conclusions 31 October 2005 Work with your neighbours Visit regularlywww.itu.int –Updated software –News flashes –Presentations from previous workshops –FAQ Contact us if you have any questions!!

RRC information meeting and workshop Dakar, Senegal April 2005 Thank you for your attention!