Regional Radio Seminar Asia and the Pacific 2021

Spectrum Management and RF Monitoring ITU Regional Office Activities in ASP region

11 Oct 2021

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Scope

1. Organization and Mandate

2. Approach

3. Working together

ITU in Asia and the Pacific region

38 Member Administrations

➢ 11 LDCs

➢ 4 LLDCs

➢ 15 SIDs

➢ 5 SIDs are LDCs as well

➢ 2 Countries in special needs

Regional Office(Bangkok)

Area Office(Jakarta)

ITU-D: Global and Asia-Pacific Regional Priorities: 2018-2021

5 REGIONAL PRIORITIES

International cooperation and agreement on telecom/ICTs

Modern and secure telecommunication/ ICT Infrastructure

Enabling environment

Inclusive digital society

ASP RI 5

Security & Resilience

ASP RI 4

Policy & Regulation

ASP RI 3

Digital infrastructure

ASP RI 2

Digital economy and

inclusive digital society

ASP RI 1 Addressing

special needs of LDCs, SIDS

(incl. PIC), LLDCs

4 GLOBAL OBJECTIVES

.. aligned to accelerate digital transformation and realize and inclusive digital society

ITU-D: Global and Asia-Pacific Regional Thematic areas

• 8 Sub themes (Spectrum Management, Broadcasting, NGN, Broadband networks, Rural-Communications, Bridging the Standardization Gap, C&I, International Connectivity)

Network infrastructure and services

Cybersecurity

• 2 Sub themes (Policy and regulation, Economic and Finance)Policy and regulation

Statistics (including Big Data)

• 3 sub themes (ITU Academy, CoEs, GCBI)Capacity building

Digital Innovation Ecosystem• Sub-themes (Digital government, Digital Health, Smart Learning, E-

Agriculture , Digital finance, Smart villages, other Cross-sector and initiatives)

Digital Applications and Services

Emergency Telecommunications

• 4 sub-themes (Person with Disabilities, Woman and Girls, Indigenous people, Youth and children)Digital inclusion

• 2 sub-themes (Climate-change, E-waste)Environment

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Where we work?

Technical Capacity Building

Case studies and information sharing

Direct Country Assistances

Automation of SM functions

Technical Capacity Building

Since 2015 over 1000 participants trained in Virtual and F2F trainings

No Online trainings CoE DatesTraining fees

(USD)

1 Spectrum Management and Technology Application SRMC 9 – 22 Aug Free

2 Spectrum Management and Spectrum Engineering Techniques SRMC 6 – 19 Sept Free

3 Ubiquitous Broadband for Future Generations ALTTC 27 Sep- 8 Oct 100

4Human Exposure to Fifth Generation (5G) Electromagnetic Fields:

Guidelines, Measurements & Case StudiesUTM 4 – 17 Oct

150

https://www.itu.int/en/myitu/News/2021/01/04/10/43/Spectrum-management-capacity-building-Asia-Pacific-Region

• Impact Assessment: outcomes of the project on beneficiary population and country

• Develop sustainability plan for remote connectivity solutions and upgrades needs (if any)

• Further Cooperation: potential applications and services that can be run on the installed solutions to further benefit users

Satellite Connectivity project in the Pacific

Schools: Distant learning: COVID, remote islandsOnline research: students & teachersSchool admin: apps, file sharing

Health Centres: TelemedicineMedical supplies

Emergency: Early warningWeather dataComms for recovery

Community: CommunicationsInternetSocial media

Resiliency: Backup connectivity is crucial particularly for critical communications

Outcomes & Benefits

Direct Country Assistances

✓ NTFA development and updates▪ Bangladesh, Vanuatu, Tonga, Fiji, Cambodia, Timor-leste, Samoa

✓ Master-plans for Spectrum Management▪ Mongolia, Pakistan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri-lanka, Fiji,

✓ Guidelines for Short Range Wireless devices▪ Vanuatu, Solomon-Island

✓ Radio Laws▪ Vietnam, Nepal

✓ Interference Mitigation▪ Lao P.D.R, Cambodia, Indonesia-Singapore-Malaysia

✓ Analog to Digital TV conversion▪ 24 countries

✓ Spectrum Pricing▪ Mongolia, Timor-leste, Cambodia

✓ 5G market readiness Assessment▪ Brunei

https://www.itu.int/net4/ITU-D/CDS/PRJ/eBook/CaseStudies/Case_Study_Asia-Pacific_9RAS14047/index.html

Case Studies and information sharing

➢ Events and workshops on key areas➢ Regional Radio Seminar (BR led)➢ Annual regional Spectrum Conference (FG as Partner)➢ Annual events in Pacific (PITA as partner)

➢ Regional Studies➢ Framework for Effective Spectrum Management Training in Asia Pacific ➢ ASP regional trends on providing access to IMT bands for Mobile service

Potential Spectrum Management Training TopicsCross border frequency management

5G implications for spectrum management

Conducting effective spectrum auctions

Advanced technical issues, e.g., TDD systems, synchronisation,frame structures

Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMF) management https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Conferences/ET/2021/Documents/presentations/Day%204%20session%201/Day%204%20session%201%20PPT.pdf (Page 53 onwards)

Five major components of this study: (i) Considerations underlying spectrum assignments (ii) IMT spectrum assignments in ASP in the last 5 years(iii) Proposed IMT spectrum assignments in the ASP(iv) Approaches to the setting reserve prices(v) Policy & regulatory settings for spectrum assignments.

Automation of SM functions

➢ SMS4DC: software designed by ITU based on ITU recommendations

➢ SMS4DC covers terrestrial fixed, mobile, sound and television broadcasting services in the bands above 30 MHz, including GE-06 as well as frequency coordination of Earth stations

➢ Users from over 40 administrations all over the world.

➢ All pacific countries have acquired license

➢ Regional activities include provides support

➢ Technical training, refresher courses

➢ Developing and incorporating Higher resolution DEM on demand

➢ Development of software to include outcomes of WRCs

Partnerships are key. .

Technical Capacity Building

Case studies and information sharing

Direct Country Assistances

Automation of SM functions

Partnerships

How we can work together

➢ Sharing of technical case studies and experiences

➢ Contribution through domain Experts

➢ Hands-on training on RF monitoring and spectrum planning

➢ Cooperation through projects

➢ High demand region especially as 5G roll outs are being considered

➢ Harmonize allocation and initiative to have regional cross border interference mitigation mechanism

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