Spectrum Management: Main Drivers 1 Concept of Spectrum Management (SM) • Radio Frequency Spectrum is a National Resource and to be used efficiently by qualified and licensed users, • Harmonized utilization of spectrum by different nations is an essential need to support international roaming, to facilitate interconnection and to provide more economic radiocommunication services, • Frequency bands can be utilized at same point, in same time, almost once while there could be more than one demand for utilization, • Uncoordinated electromagnetic radiation of individual and independent spectrum users could interfere each other, • Administration of radiocommunication sector, monitoring of spectrum utilization, regulation of market, implementation of strategies, case studies and development of sector policy shall be conducted by spectrum management authority General Objectives of SM . National objectives and goals would drive objectives and policy of spectrum management . To make available rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide radiocommunication services; . To foster innovation in the development of infrastructure and provision of services; . To serve national security and defense; . To safeguard life and property; . To support crime prevention and law enforcement; . To support national and international transportation system; . To foster conservation of natural resources; . To provide for dissemination of educational, general and public interest information and entertainment; . To promote scientific research, development, and exploration; . To stimulate social and economic progress; Elements of SM • Spectrum management is a combination of administrative and technical activities for efficient utilization of spectrum by users without causing harmful interference in their service area Role of SM in ICT Sector • Allocating spectrum to the telecommunication networks having a higher level license inside the framework stipulated in telecommunication network license; • Renewing and amending spectrum license granted to telecommunication network in the framework of higher level license, • Providing spectrum to the networks which are solely radiocommunication networks subject to determined frame work i.e. best price, applicant liability and etc; • Inspection of stations of all networks and monitoring spectrum to compare with the conditions of granted licenses; • Evacuating spectrum from occupation of old technologies and redeployment of them in favor of networks employing spectrum efficient methods; • Redirecting spectrum demand traffic from the congested frequency bands to the other frequency bands; Long-term tasks of a SM Authority • Planning long-term programs with the aim of efficient utilization of spectrum • Deregulation of radiocommunication market inline with the deregulation of telecommunication sector; • Liberalization of duties and supervising the liberalized market; • Promotion of transparency of national radio regulations • Encouraging private sector to promote consultancy activities related to the spectrum management; • Publicizing spectrum significance among people; • To ease licensing process and to cope with real demand of spectrum user Daily Tasks of a SM Authority • To provide regulatory/technical decisions on spectrum utilization • To plan frequency bands for various applications, • To engineer frequency bands to identify technical conditions, • To issue, to renew, to amend and to cancel radio license; • To issue class license, • To redeploy spectrum for spectrum re-farming, • To monitor spectrum for measuring consistence of spectrum utilization with granted licenses and to help spectrum planning; • To coordinate frequency, to register and notify frequency assignment, • To track trends in spectrum management and to participate in relevant international activities; • To design and sign bilateral and multilateral agreements • To identify/develop basic and necessary technical standards Spectrum Planning • An operational/technical utilization plan should be developed for the most of frequency bands allocated to radiocommunication services in accordance with RR Article 5, • Similar to the notations used by ITU for Recommendations, each spectrum utilization plan could consists of: –Considering part which establish reasons to provide such a plan; –Recognizing part which address existing related facts, plans and decisions; –Noting part to highlight some indirect but important relevant notes; –Resolve part to explain decisions made as plan. Decisions may be given through various Annexes explaining technical and operational conditions, frequency block or channel arrangement, etc • Content of each plan shall provide a set clear operational conditions and technical requirements for radiocommunication devices to employ concerned frequency bands. These conditions and requirements would determine how a frequency channel could be used in which place under what technical requirements, • Examples: Citizen’s Band plan, ISM applications, SRDs and etc. Spectrum Planning tasks of the SM • The topmost task of spectrum planning personnel is to provide and to keep upgraded table of national frequency allocations (N-FAT). In continuation to the N-FAT, spectrum planning experts have to: – provide and to keep updated table of national frequency assignment, – provide and to keep upgraded table of national call-sign assignment, – provide and to keep upgraded procedures necessary for daily job spectrum management divisions, – provide and to keep upgraded various frequency plans and frequency assignment plans dealing with different radio applications, – review and suggest all necessary improvements to the executive national radio regulations, – provide any special plans dealing with spectrum including spectrum redeployment, – aid spectrum engineering part in development of technical tools employing frequency plans and tables – forecast spectrum requirement and plan for spectrum re-farming Spectrum Engineering tasks of SM • To provide an up to dated computerized spectrum management system in use by different divisions dealing with spectrum management including divisions for radio licensing, spectrum monitoring, spectrum pricing and type approval • To develop and to keep upgraded the electronic database of spectrum management • To provide technical modules necessary in EMI analysis necessary in implementation of licensing procedures, • To resolve technical problems on estimation of utilization of spectrum by new technologies, • To estimate technical and instrumental needs of authority for efficient spectrum management, • To conduct engineering task necessary in frequency coordination missions and frequency planning, • To provide workshops and training related to the SM Spectrum Monitoring tasks of the SM • To ensure spectrum utilization consistency with conditions of granted radio licensees, • To discover and to stop illegal and unlawful operation of radiocommunication stations, • To resolve national and international interference complains, • To investigate and proof qualification of licensees as well as given license, • To conduct spectrum monitoring missions requested by different divisions of spectrum management authority, • To measure spectrum occupancy, noise floor, propagation parameters and any other requested activities related to the physical activities in field, • To confiscate and enforce radio equipments in operation without having an approved standard or a certificate, • To manage remote manned/unmanned fixed spectrum monitoring sites and their connection to computerized spectrum management system, as well as mobile spectrum monitoring units Standardization tasks of the SM • To issue all necessary certificate and type approval (TA) for the equipments: – manufactured inside the country and to be used inside the country, – Imported from foreign manufacturer and to be used or demonstrated inside the country, – Imported from foreign manufacturer and to be tested inside the country by an accredited body, – Deemed to be used with no standard! • To provide and verify necessary written standards compatible with national policy and demands, • To customize useful international standards for national use, • To issue necessary TA by testing compliance of radiocommunication equipment with a known or with a minimum standard values, • To build a network of testing laboratories inside and outside the country for type approval purpose Spectrum Pricing tasks of the SM – To upgrade methodology of spectrum pricing and tune schedules in accordance with the technological change and spectrum congestion – To calculate spectrum price in different frequency bands for different systems in various areas used by different users, – To encourage radiocommunication sector to utilize spectrum more efficiently in accordance with their real need, – To push demands toward frequency bands with less congestion, – To encourage spectrum applicants and existing spectrum users to use spectrum – efficient technologies, – To encourage licensees to release or transfer licensed spectrum whenever they do not need to employ it any more, – To fulfill budget necessary for spectrum redeployment, – To try encompass financial needs of spectrum management authority for its administrative costs, technical costs, spectrum monitoring costs, development inline with technological innovations and conduction of technical studies, International roles of the SM • Supporting harmonized global frequency allocations, • Providing and supporting common standards to achieve the highest level of