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Experiences of the 800 MHz award in Sweden

Experiences of the 800 MHz award in Sweden. Ola Wimo Technical Adviser Department of Spectrum Licensing Swedish Post and Telecom Authority. ITU Regional Seminar on Digital Dividend , Warsaw 7-9 May. Refarming the 800 MHz band Interference between DVB-T and IMT *

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Experiences of the 800 MHz award in Sweden

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  1. Experiences of the 800 MHz award in Sweden Ola WimoTechnical AdviserDepartment of Spectrum LicensingSwedish Post and Telecom Authority ITU Regional Seminar on Digital Dividend, Warsaw 7-9 May

  2. Refarming the 800 MHz band • Interference between DVB-T and IMT* • Interference between ARNS and IMT* • Coverage in rural areas The Challenges *450, 800, 900, 1800, 2100, 2500, 3500, 3700 MHz bands are awarded as technology and service neutral licenses, with technical conditions that facilitates IMT.

  3. Coverage economics • Countries in north-western part of Europe are sparsely populated. • Sweden: ~22 pop/km2 85% of total population in urban areas* • Norway: ~15 pop/km2 79% of total population in urban areas* • Finland: ~17 pop/km2 85% of total population in urban areas* Low frequencies are ”necessary” to reach high population coverage * All figures from the CIA world factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

  4. Rural coverage • Part of the 800 MHz band (816-821/857-862 MHz) had special licensing conditions that aims to provide coverage to households without broadband connection. • The majority of these households are located in the northern part of Sweden.

  5. The northern part S W E F I N R U S

  6. Highly populated areas • South-eastern Sweden is a highly industrialized part, but with small cities some 10s of km apart. • Many people commute, and thus are in need of mobile broadband.

  7. The southern part. S W E RUS

  8. The use of mobile broadband is increasing dramatically MB/pop/day mobile data Broadband subscriptions Source: The Swedish Telecommunications Market first half year 2011

  9. How can we solve this? ”Boundary conditions” • Both the Russian Federation and Sweden needs to be able to use the 800 MHz band. • In the Russian Federation high power ground based transmitters were sparsley distributed and medium power tranmitters were at a high altitude. • In Sweden many low power tranmitters were distributed at random places and medium power tranmitters were with various densities.

  10. ITU-R tried to solve this in Joint Task Group 5-6 (JTG 5/6) There was no real conclusion in JTG 5/6 on how to resolve the co channel sharing situation between Sweden and the Russian Federation

  11. CEPT tried to solve this within CPG-PTD CPG-PTD managed to isolate the core of the problem down to 2 options (with suboptions). But there was still no real conclusion.

  12. During CPM11-2 it was decided to develop a framwork for bilateral coordination between affected countries

  13. Bilateral coordination negotiations between the Russian Federation and Sweden (and Norway)

  14. Finaly after many years of work we reached an agreement • This agreement regulates • What the Russian federation can • do with out coordinating with • Sweden • What Sweden can do with out • coordinating with the Russian • Federation • The coordination process for • situations not covered above.

  15. Upcoming spectrum challenges WRC 15 Agenda Item 1.1 WRC 15 Agenda Item 1.2

  16. ”WE NEED 2*30 MHz BELOW 1 GHz EXCLUSIVELY –SOON” ”WE CAN USE THE WHITESPACE IN UHF” ”WE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN OTHERS” ”THIS SPECTRUM IS OURS, IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN” ”WE NEED 100 MHz CHANNELS IN THE 1 -3 GHz RANGE QUITE SOON” ”THAT OLD SERVICE SHOULD BE PHASED OUT” ”WE CANNOT SHARE” ”WE ARE THE MARKET” ”WE NEED 2*10 MHz BELOW 1 GHz NOW”

  17. The PTS spectrum policy • Licences to use radio transmitters shall be as technology and service neutral as possible • When selection procedures are required, an auction should be applied in the first instance • Second-hand trading (transfer of licences) shall be promoted • Licence exemption should be introduced where there is little risk of harmful interference and there are no other impediments

  18. Coverage mobile networks CDMA450 GSM 3G/UMTS 4G/LTE

  19. How to get 1200 MHz by 2015? Total sum: 1405 MHz 1010 MHz OK 155 MHz Ongoing 240 MHz on hold but in pipeline

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