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Qatar National Frequency Allocation Plan and Specific Communications Regulatory Authority 2 Table of Contents Qatar National Frequency Allocation Plan and Specific Assignments Table of Contents Part 01. GENERAL INFORMATION .............................................................................................................. 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................5 2. Principals of Spectrum Management .................................................................................................5 3. Definition of terms used ..........................................................................................................................7 4. How to read the frequency allocation table .................................................................................. 11 5. Radio Wave Spectrum ............................................................................................................................ 12 Part 02. FREQUENCY ALLOCATION PLAN ............................................................................................... Qatar Frequency Allocation Plan ............................................................................................................ 15 Part 03. QATAR’S FOOTNOTES ................................................................................................................... Footnotes Relevant to Qatar.................................................................................................................. 99 Part 04. Appendices and Annexes ............................................................................................................... Appendix 1: List of Specific Assignments.......................................................................................... 117 Appendix 2: List of frequency bands for SRD applications .........................................................118 Appendix 3: Harmonized frequency ranges / frequency spots ...............................................120 Appendix 4: Frequency Allotment Plan .............................................................................................. 122 Annex 1: List of Spectrum Regulations ..............................................................................................128 Annex 2: International Agreement .......................................................................................................130 Annex 3: Useful Abbreviations...............................................................................................................134 3 PART 01. GENERAL INFORMATION General Information Qatar National Frequency Allocation Plan and Specific Assignments Part 01. General Information limited to civil frequency use. Discussion of military requirements does not take place 1. Introduction within the bodies in question. To record the needs of military and civil defense, The National Frequency Allocation Plan CRA convened a permanent coordination (NFAP) serves as a binding basis for the committee. This committee deals with the organizational units of the Administration coordination of frequency use in bands, responsible for frequency assignment so which are currently subject to joint, use that they can fulfil their responsibilities according to the NFAP though which in in relation to frequency assignment. future will also be subject to joint use. The Frequency allocation in the NFAP includes aforementioned activities are ultimately the allocation of the frequency spectrum reflected in the NFAP, which as mentioned to the various radio services categories above, must be considered as a legal basis in accordance with the Radio Regulations document for the assignment of individual of the International Telecommunication frequency rights by the relevant authorities. Union (ITU). The processes and mechanisms relevant to the preparation of the NFAP are As radio signals propagate across presented and explained in the following international borders, cross-border chapters. agreements regarding frequency use are vital both between neighboring countries and between economic interest blocks on 2. Principals of Spectrum a global scale. The use of all frequency resources is harmonized at the international Management level at the ITU World Radiocommunication Conferences in order to ensure efficient 2.1 National level and interference-free use of the frequency As radio frequencies are limited resource, spectrum. The respective decisions of the efficient use of this resource is essential for World Radiocommunication Conferences the functioning of modern communication are stipulated in the Radio Regulations of societies. The Emiree Decree No. (42) of 2014 17 November 1995, specifically in Article 5 and the Telecommunications Law No. (34) of “Frequency allocations”. 2006 include a direct mandate for the body responsible for frequency management to 2.2 International level act appropriately in order to ensure efficient CRA analyses the spectrum requirements and interference-free use of frequency. for existing and planned radio services in Regulation is fundamentally concerned Qatar. This is necessary for efficient and with combining the various interests of equitable planning and coordination of frequency users and manufacturers within frequencies in order to avoid interference. It the aforementioned legal mandate. is also necessary because CRA represents In order for frequency regulation to Qatar in regional and international bodies be as target-oriented as possible, the in the frequency sector, where it safeguards sometimes-conflicting interests of the Qatar interests in order to promote them on various frequency users must be recorded an international (regional and global) level. as accurately as possible and weighed The Qatar strategy aims to regulate against each other. The requirements of access to the frequency spectrum (for industry and the associated civil uses are both commercial and non-commercial radio largely tabled via the international working services) on a national and international groups of the ITU. Individual project groups level in a coordinated manner. It aims to then examine the tabled requirements; the ensure that Qatar rights are respected relevant bodies then draw up and adopt in accordance with international law. appropriate basic documentation. These International bodies aim to harmonize the jointly developed principles then serve use of the spectrum by the various radio to allow regionally and internationally services. Any international decisions taken harmonized use of frequency resources. The therefore play a part in national spectrum activity of these working groups is usually management. 5 Communications Regulatory Authority The regional contact for harmonization World Radiocommunication Conferences of the frequency spectrum in the region (WRC) to adapt the existing framework to is the Telecommunication Bureau of Gulf spectrum requirements in order to refine Countries Council. The Telecommunications existing applications or facilitate the Bureau provides a framework within introduction of new applications. administrations can develop provisions according to which the conditions for The NFAP assumes and supplements the spectrum use can be harmonized with relevant provisions of the RR for Qatar. regard to market demand and technological International planning and harmonization developments. work within the ITU results in “resolutions” and “recommendations”. The results of ITU The International Telecommunication World Conferences are set forth in “final Union Radiocommunication Sector acts”. With the adoption of the final acts, (ITU-R) allocates worldwide frequencies Qatar commits itself to comply with the to radio services in accordance with the new provisions of international law. Radio Regulations (RR). The RR is an international agreement, which regulates For the allocation of frequencies, the use of frequency resources for all radio International Telecommunication Union applications, as well as the orbital positions (ITU), a subsidiary of the United Nations, of geostationary and non-geostationary which deals with the Telecommunication satellites. This agreement is binding for ITU sector, has divided the world into three member states. The RR are revised in the Regions as shown on the following map: The State of Qatar is signatory to Russian Federation which lies between lines International Telecommunication Union A and C. Whereas the lines A, B and C are (ITU) convention and situated in Region 1. defined as follows: Region 1 includes the area limited on the east by line A (lines A, B and C are defined Line A: Line A extends from the North Pole below) and on the west by line B, excluding along meridian 40° East of Greenwich to any of the territory of the Islamic Republic parallel 40° North; thence by great circle of Iran which lies between these limits. It arc to the intersection of meridian 60° East also includes the whole of the territory of and the Tropic of Cancer; thence along the Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Russian Federation, meridian 60° East to the South Pole. Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Line B: Line B extends from the North Pole Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey along meridian 10° West of Greenwich to its and Ukraine and the area to the north of intersection with parallel 72° North; thence 6 General Information Qatar National Frequency Allocation Plan and Specific Assignments by great circle arc to the intersection of Allocation
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