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Service Areas for Competitive Licensing October 2015 Issue 4 Spectrum Management and Telecommunications Service Areas for Competitive Licensing Aussi disponible en français Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 1 2. Background ........................................................................................................................................ 1 3. Service Area Definitions .................................................................................................................... 1 3.1 Tier 1 ............................................................................................................................................. 3 3.2 Tier 2 ............................................................................................................................................. 5 3.3 Tier 3 ............................................................................................................................................. 8 3.4 Tier 4 ........................................................................................................................................... 12 3.5 TEL Areas ................................................................................................................................... 20 4. Minor Deviations From Provincial Borders ................................................................................. 26 i Service Areas for Competitive Licensing 1. Introduction This document contains descriptions of the service areas that Industry Canada uses for all competitive1 licensing processes.2 These processes include spectrum auctions and comparative review processes. This document incorporates minor adjustments to all service areas as a result of the modernization of the Department’s Spectrum Management System (SMS) in 2015. The radio authorization, which will be associated with the use of spectrum in these areas, is the spectrum licence, which was introduced with the amendment of the Radiocommunication Act in June 1996. A spectrum licence is defined as an authorization “in respect of the utilization of specified radio frequencies within a defined geographic area.” 2. Background As part of the above-mentioned SMS modernization, the Department changed the way in which service areas for competitive and user-defined licensing have been constructed since the mid-1990s. Specifically, Industry Canada changed the definition of the building block of these geographic areas, called the spectrum “grid cell,” from a 25 km2 hexagonal shaped block to a 1 minute latitude × 1 minute longitude square block. This change from hexagonal grid cells to square grid cells is outlined in Canada Gazette notice DGSO-004-15, Spectrum Management System Modernization: Changes to the Definition of Competitive and User-Defined Service Areas for Spectrum Licences (www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf11031.html). The changes are the result of a consultation process undertaken in DGSO-001-15, Consultation on Changes to the Definition of Competitive and User-Defined Service Areas for Spectrum Licences (www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf10943.html). 3. Service Area Definitions As different wireless services and applications are best suited to different sizes of service areas, four tiers of service areas have been established: • Tier 1 is a single national service area covering the entire territory of Canada. • Tier 2 consists of 14 provincial and large regional service areas covering the entire territory of Canada. Two additional Tier 2 areas, created for the Province of Alberta and the Province of 1 Includes various licensing processes including auctions and first-come first-served. 2 In mid-2015, all service areas that the Department uses for all competitive licensing processes were slightly adjusted as part of the modernization of the Spectrum Management System. 1 Service Areas for Competitive Licensing Saskatchewan, generally adhere to the Alberta-Saskatchewan interprovincial border and maintain the territorial integrity of each province. These two Tier 2 service areas do not have associated Tier 3 and Tier 4 service areas. • Tier 3 consists of 59 smaller regional service areas covering the entire territory of Canada. • Tier 4 comprises 172 localized service areas covering the entire territory of Canada. The Tier 4 localized service area boundaries were initially developed using contiguous groupings of Statistics Canada’s 1996 census subdivisions.3 During development, service area borderlines were placed through lesser populated and more remote areas, wherever possible, in order to minimize potential interference problems. Tier 3 boundaries are based on groupings of Tier 4 localized service areas. Similarly, Tier 2 provincial and large regional service areas are based on groupings of Tier 3 service areas. The two Tier 2 areas, Province of Saskatchewan (2-017) and Province of Alberta (2-018) were created for the 700 MHz auction held in 2014. In general, these tier areas represent the geographic areas of each of these two provinces without the deviations indicated below in Section 4 — Minor Deviations From the Provincial Borders. An additional group of service areas was developed to accommodate the transition of non-auctioned Cellular and Personal Communications Services (PCS) licences from apparatus-based licences to spectrum licences and generally corresponding to the wireline services areas of the telephone companies operating in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. These service areas are known as Local Telephone Service Areas (TEL). With the exception of the Local Telephone Service Areas, service areas were designed with borders drawn in remote, less populated areas, to the extent possible, in order to minimize potential interference problems. Service areas were “converted” into areas based on a grouping of the spectrum grid cell building blocks in order to facilitate their electronic storage and representation. The minimum size of the grid cell is 1 minute latitude × 1 minute longitude and these are employed along service area boundaries, which will offer sufficient granularity such that the variations between the borders of the grid-cell defined areas and the underlying census divisions and subdivision(s) will be minimal. Larger square grid cells, e.g. 3 minute × 3 minute cells or 15 minute × 15 minute cells, are implemented for interiors of service areas where fine granularity is not required. The following pages provide tier service area maps and tables with population values based on data supplied by Statistics Canada. Electronic versions of service area maps are available on 3 Census subdivision (CSD) is the general term that applies to municipalities or their equivalent (Ref. Statistics Canada – Cat. No. 92-351-UIE 1996 Census Dictionary – Final Edition). 2 Service Areas for Competitive Licensing Industry Canada’s Spectrum Management and Telecommunications website (www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/h_sf01627.html). 3.1 Tier 1 Table 1 — Tier 1 Service Area Tier 2001 2006 2011 Service Area Name Tier 2 Service Areas Area Population Population Population 2-001, 2-002, 2-003, 2-004, 2-005, 2-006, 2-007, 2-008, 1-001 Canada 30,006,263 31,609,529 33,470,818 2-009, 2-010, 2-011, 2-012, 2-013, 2-014 (2-017 and 2-018) Figure 1: Tier 1 Service Area Map 3 Service Areas for Competitive Licensing 4 Service Areas for Competitive Licensing 3.2 Tier 2 Table 2 — Service Areas 2001 2006 2011 Tier 3 Tier Area Service Area Name Population Population Population Service Areas Newfoundland and 2-001 513,293 505,735 514,711 3-001 Labrador Nova Scotia and Prince 2-002 1,043,276 1,049,284 1,061,900 3-002, 3-003, 3-004 Edward Island 2-003 New Brunswick 728,685 728,196 749,623 3-005, 3-006, 3-007 2-004 Eastern Quebec 1,590,787 1,613,126 1,668,504 3-008, 3-009, 3-010 3-011, 3-012, 3-013, 2-005 Southern Quebec 5,151,123 5,415,082 5,683,127 3-014 3-015, 3-016, 3-018, Eastern Ontario and 2-006 2,122,115 2,222,625 2,347,556 3-019, 3-020, 3-021, Outaouais 3-022, 3-023 2-007 Northern Quebec 187,204 185,898 190,271 3-017 3-024, 3-025, 3-026, 3-027, 3-028, 3-029, 2-008 Southern Ontario 8,811,356 9,485,855 10,091,045 3-030, 3-031, 3-032, 3-033 3-034, 3-035, 3-036, 2-009 Northern Ontario 785,189 784,279 773,104 3-037, 3-038 2-010 Manitoba 1,119,784 1,148,381 1,208,253 3-039, 3-040 2-011 Saskatchewan 975,023 964,433 1,029,497 3-041, 3-042, 3-043 3-044, 3-045, 3-046, 2-012 Alberta 2,978,381 3,293,928 3,648,798 3-047, 3-048, 3-049 3-050, 3-051, 3-052, 2-013 British Columbia 3,907,565 4,113,797 4,399,805 3-053, 3-054, 3-055, 3-056, 3-057, 3-058 Yukon, Northwest 2-014 92,483 98,910 104,625 3-059 Territories and Nunavut Province of 2-017 976,054 964,718 1,029,751 N/A Saskatchewan 2-018 Province of Alberta 2,977,350 3,293,643 3,648,544 N/A 5 Service Areas for Competitive Licensing Figure 2a: Tier 2 Service Areas Map 6 Service Areas for Competitive Licensing Figure 2b: Tier 2-017 and Tier 2-018 Service Areas (Adhere to Provincial Borders of Saskatchewan and Alberta) 7 Service Areas for Competitive Licensing 3.3 Tier 3 Table 3 — Service Areas 2001 2006 2011 Tier Area Service Area Name Tier 4 Service Areas Population Population Population Newfoundland and 4-001, 4-002, 4-003, 4-004, 3-001 513,293 505,735 514,711 Labrador 4-005 3-002 Prince Edward Island 135,294 135,851 140,204 4-006, 4-007 4-008, 4-009, 4-010, 4-011, 3-003 Mainland Nova Scotia 761,038 771,883 786,472 4-012, 4-013 3-004 Cape Breton 146,944 141,551 135,224
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