1. REPORT FROM SESSION #3, CRITICAL COMMUNICATION Jonas Sundborg, ETSI Board Chairman, ETSI GSC-18 Meeting, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis, France Document No: GSC(14)18_042 Source: ETSI Contact: Jonas Sundborg, jonas,sundborg@ericsson.com Jane Brownley, jane.brownley@alcatel-lucent.comjane.brownley@alcatel-lucent.com Kohei Satoh, satoh@arib.or.jpsatoh@arib.or.jp Agenda Item: 8.4

2. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS AT THE SESSION #3 GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis The session #3 on Critical Communication covered presentations about: GSC Task Force on Emergency Communications ITU Activities on Critical Communications including Radio matters related to Emergency Communication TCCA activities and issues for the global community Critical Communications in North America Region Critical Communications in Asia-Pacific Region Through the Experience of Great East Japan Earthquake Critical communication in China Critical Communications in Europe Region 2

3. SUMMARY OF PRESENTATIONS (1/6) GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Decision has been taken by the GSC HoDs to continue the GSC Emergency Communications Task Force GSC members are encouraged to share the latest version of the GSC EM TF report (word document), which is publicly available http://www.etsi.org/gsc-18, under Documents http://www.etsi.org/gsc-18 An overview of the ITU Focus Group activities was provided Focus Group on Disaster Relief Systems, Network Resilience and Recovery Ten (10) service proposals as output from the Focus Group were outlined 3

4. SUMMARY OF PRESENTATIONS (2/6) GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis TETRA community encourages global standards for successful critical communications and envision going forward with Commercial LTE for “non mission critical data” and Private LTE for “mission critical data & voice” Need to require spectrum for private LTE 4

5. SUMMARY OF PRESENTATIONS (3/6) GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis ATIS activities were presented (including standards development as well as regulatory requirements and guidance and plus joint activities with TIA) across the four general types of Critical Communications in addition to Device-to-Device (M2M, ITS) Supports “ a global standard to fulfill public safety requirements” Supports interworking with existing systems and the seamless transfer & migration to newer systems (such as ALL-IP networks) Supports addressing regional needs while coordination with global directives with other organizations 5

6. SUMMARY OF PRESENTATIONS (4/6) GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis ARIB shared their experiences and identified needs resulting from the great east Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011, e.g. Need for reliable radio and (mobile) TV broadcasting during and after disasters Need to be prepared before disasters, e.g. Backup system using satellite Large zone base stations Disaster Voice Messaging Service 6

7. SUMMARY OF PRESENTATIONS (5/6) GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis CCSA shared their work with Critical Communication in China The balance of Telecommunication network and Mobile Internet Application, such as public warning The balance between Public benefit service and Market service, such as priority call Priority Services standard is ready, but how to use and implement standard is more important 7

8. SUMMARY OF PRESENTATIONS (6/6) GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis ETSI shared their work on Critical Communication in the Europe region Preserve strengths of LTE while adding features needed to support critical communications by maximizing technical commonality between commercial and critical communications aspects The standardization of Critical Communication systems is essential… …and so is the participation of the wider Critical Communications community in preparing those standards Better knowledge sharing and collaboration is required between all stakeholders Global solutions offer significant economy of scale advantages Intelligent use of modern ICT technologies will help save lives But, Prevention is always better than cure….. 8

9. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Conclusion The objectives of the session #3 Critical Communication were met to: Share information between all GSC Members and invited participants. Address topics that are of high interest of the individual GSC Members, and also to bring in views from other players in the market. Recommendation Continue to encourage and enhance collaboration between SDOs, fora and consortia worldwide in order to get harmonized Critical Communication standards Continue to encourage interoperable solutions based on global, commercial standards. 9