1. Slide 1 GSC9/JOINT_005 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea Public Safety and Disaster Relief Douglas Sward Phone:+1 613-990-4700 E-mail:sward.doug@ic.gc.ca

2. Slide 2 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea Status in GSC Resolution RAST 10/1 (2001) –Identifies public safety and disaster relief as a high interest subject Resolution GSC – 8/1 (2003) –Concludes that it is important for PSOs, authorities and/or organizations providing emergency services in countries across the world to continue to collaborate in the development of technical standards

3. Slide 3 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea Resolution 646 (WRC-03) Public Protection and Disaster Relief Resolution 646 (WRC-03) considers that: –Many future applications will be wideband (indicative data rates in the order of 384-500 kbit/s) and/or broadband (indicative data rates in the order of 1-100 Mbit/s) –New technologies for wideband and broadband public protection and disaster relief applications are being developed in various standards organizations (for example, a joint standardizations programme between ETSI and TIA, know as Project MESA)

4. Slide 4 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea Public Safety Requirements Future requirements for public safety communications will include: –wideband applications (eg. wireless transmission of large blocks of data, video) –broadband applications (eg. high-speed data, high quality digital real time video and multimedia) PS requirements include the need for lower cost of equipment, services and interoperability

5. Slide 5 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea The Interoperability Challenge Several key issue areas must be addressed before interoperability can become a reality GSC can help address one piece of the puzzle: standards Interoperability Spectrum Funding Standards and Technology Coordination and Partnerships

6. Slide 6 May 9 -13, 2004 GSC-9 Seoul, Korea Proposal Adopt a new GSC Resolution resolving to: –Encourage PSOs to develop standards for new terrestrial wireless digital wideband communications (voice and data) for public safety in the 764-806 MHz band –Encourage agreement among SDOs and users on which standard is appropriate (based on existing commercial equipment or a new PS standard) for broadband communications in the 4940-4990 MHz band