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New WRC-19 report: areas of agreement and unresolved issues
With four months to go until WRC-19, what agreements have been reached and what proposals are facing the most opposition? The answers are in PolicyTracker's new WRC-19 Briefing. The ITU World Radiocommunication Conferences are very important, setting the pattern for how spectrum will be used globally. National representatives have been in continual dialogue and a lot has changed since our previous report last year. Based on interviews with the main stakeholders and…
With four months to go until WRC-19, what agreements have been reached and what proposals are facing the most opposition? The answers are in PolicyTracker's new WRC-19 Briefing.
The ITU World Radiocommunication Conferences are very important, setting the pattern for how spectrum will be used globally. National representatives have been in continual dialogue and a lot has changed since our previous report last year.
Based on interviews with the main stakeholders and intensive analysis of key documents the new WRC-19 Briefing identifies and scrutinises the key developments, including:
- Latest positions on 5G bands in mmWave
- Wi-Fi at 5 GHz
- Views on the 4.9 GHz proposal considered under "urgent items"
- ITS at 5.9 GHz
- Progress on the acrimonious debate about IMT in S-Band
- Relaxing restrictions on satellite spectrum usage
- The current state of play in agreeing agenda items for WRC-23
- AI1.14 High Altitude Platform stations (HAPs)
- AI 1.11 (Railway trackside communications)
- AI 1.12 (5.9 GHz for Intelligent Transport Systems)
- AI 1.16 (Wi-Fi at 5 GHz)
- AI 9.1 issue 9.1-1 (Coordinating S-Band between mobile and satellite)
- AI 1.13 (mmWave 5G)
- AI 1.4 (Loosening limits for the Broadcasting-Satellite service at 11.7 – 12.7 GHz)
- AI 1.5 (Allowing Earth Stations in Motion to operate under the Fixed-satellite service)
- AI 1.6 (Allowing NGSOs to operate in Q and V Bands)
- AI 7 (Includes extending deadlines for registering NGSO mega-constellations)
- AI 9.1 issue 9.1-9. (Fixed-Satellite uplinks at 51.4 – 52.4 GHz)
- AIs 1.2 and 1.3 (Data Collection Systems for ocean-borne sensors)
- AI 1.7: (sub-1 GHz spectrum for short-duration satellites)
- AI 1.8 (Modernising Global Maritime Distress Safety Systems)
- AI 10, (Agenda for future conferences)
- AI 9.1 issue 9.1-7 (Preventing unauthorised satellite uplinks)
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Martin Sims