RRC06 results related to the broadcasting service

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RRC-06 results related to the broadcasting
service

• Ilham GHAZI

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Summary Slide

• How the RRC was born?
• First session of RRC
• Intersessional activities
• Regulatory and procedural activities
• Technical studies
• Planning activities
• Second session of RRC
• Structure of the Conference
• Planning process
• Output of the Conference RRC-06
• PLANS
• Final Acts
• Transition period
• Impact of GE06 on the existing Plans

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How the RRC was born?

• Several developments in the radiocommunication
  industry related to digital broadcasting.
• Initial steps to convene a regional
  radiocommunication conference initiated by
  countries located within the planning area of the
  ST61 Regional Agreement.
• Consultation process launched by ITU extension
  of the planning area.
• Adoption of Resolution 1185 mod.

Additional countries outside ST61 (RCC)
countries from ST61
countries from GE89
Parts of Region 1, situated to the west of 170?
eastern longitude and to the north of of parallel
40 ? S, including the territories of the Islamic
Republic of Iran, but excluding the territory of
Mongolia.
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Region 1 (those parts of Region 1, as defined in
No. 5.3 of the Radio Regulations, situated to the
west of meridian 170 E and to the north of
parallel 40 S, except the territories of
Mongolia) and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
PLANNING AREA
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Regional Radiocommunication Conference

• First session of RRC ? RRC-04
• Intersessional activities
• Second session ? RRC-06

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First session of RRC

• The Regional Radiocommunication Conference (RRC)
  2004 was convened in Geneva, 10 28 May 2004
• Objectives, to provide
• the basis for the work of the second session of
  RRC,
• the necessary bases to facilitate planning
  exercises prior to the second session of RRC,
• the form in which the requirements of
  administrations should be submitted, and
• the basis for the production of a plan for
  digital terrestrial broadcasting in the 174
  230 MHz and 470 862 MHz in the RRC planning
  area.

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Specific output of the RRC-04 - Resolutions -

• Resolution 1 includes, in its Annex, the Report
  established by RRC-04.
• Resolution COM5/1 overall-scope of the
  intersessional activities relating to the
  planning exercises, by the creation of
• the Intersessional Planning Group (IPG),
• the Planning eXercise Team (PXT).
• Resolution PLEN/1 creation of a
  Regulatory/Procedural Group (RPG) with a working
  party to
• study regulatory/procedural matters relating to
  the relevant parts of the RRC-06 agenda, and the
  agendas of the short conferences, associated with
  RRC-06,
• revise the Regional Agreements Stockholm, 1961
  and Geneva, 1989.
• Resolution COM5/2 deals with the establishment
  of agenda and duration of the second session.

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Specific output documents of the RRC-04 - RRC-04
Report -

• The report consists of seven chapters
• Chapter 1 contains a list of definitions that are
  relevant for the conference and the establishment
  of a frequency plan.
• Chapter 2 provides the propagation model and
  definitions of the different propagation zones
  that occur within the planning area of the
  conference.
• Chapter 3 provides the technical bases and
  technical characteristics that are to be used for
  planning.
• Chapter 4 deals with the compatibility of digital
  broadcasting requirements with other primary
  services. It in particular provides the
  protection ratios to be used during the
  compatibility analyses.
• Chapter 5 The planning principles and methods,
  in particular the calculation methods for the
  compatibility analyses and syntheses of the
  frequency plans.
• Chapter 6 The data formats of the requirements
  for digital broadcasting and of other primary
  services.
• Chapter 7 Procedural matters, such as the new
  agreement, date of entry into force and the
  transition period for the introduction of digital
  broadcasting.

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Intersessional activities

• Regulatory and procedural activities
• Technical studies
• Planning activities

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Regulatory and procedural activities

• RPG, established by Resolution PLEN/1
• The meeting of the WP/RPG ( 29 October to 3
  November 2004)
• initial consideration of the regulatory/procedural
  issues,
• created a sub-working group to deal with the
  procedures to be associated with the RRC-06
  Agreement, the revision of the ST61 Agreement and
  the revision of the GE89 Agreement.
• Three meetings of Sub-Working Group 1 of the
  Working Party of the RPG (7-9 March 2005, 27-29
  June 2005 and 30 August-1 September 2005)
• detailed consideration of the possible text for
  the new agreement and to the revisions of the
  ST61 and GE89 Agreements.
• One meeting of RPG (6 to 9 December 2005)
  reviewed the regulatory and procedural matters
  relating to the consideration of
• the example text of the draft new Agreement,
• the possible revisions of the ST61 and GE89
  Agreements that are intended to harmonize the
  scope of all three Agreements in the bands
  concerned.

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Technical studies

• Planning Exercise Team (PXT), BR staff assisted
  by experts nominated by the respective groups.
  PXT focussed its activities on the following main
  objectives
• verification and implementation of the planning
  software for the production of the draft
  frequency Plan for digital terrestrial
  broadcasting service
• identification of planning issues to be
  considered by IPG, RPG, the ITU-R study groups
  and BR and providing, where appropriate, working
  assumptions for these issues.
• ITU-R Study Group activities, which
• provided the planning criteria,
• reviewed the planning assumptions proposed by the
  PXT that were necessary for carrying out the
  planning exercises and for the production of the
  draft frequency plan for the digital terrestrial
  service.

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Technical studies (2)

• Region groups activitiesregional coordination
  groups were established in the planning area, to
  carry out the coordination activities between
  administrations.
• European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which
  developed and provided the planning software to
  the Conference.The software, was continually
  updated and improved and carried out
• the detailed compatibility analysis between
  digital requirements, existing analogue
  television assignments and assignments to other
  primary services
• the synthesis for the production of a draft
  frequency plan.

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Planning activities

• the Intersessional Planning Group (IPG) was
  established, and two meetings have been held
  (Summaries of these meeting are available at
  http//www.itu.int/ITU-R/conferences/rrc/rrc-04/in
  tersession/ipg/index.asp).
• The Steering Group of the IPG (IPG/STG) has been
  also established, and meetings on
• 10-12 November 2004,
• 10-11 February 2005,
• 30 June-1 July 2005,
• 17-18 December 2005.
• IPG considered all the pertinent issues regarding
  the conduct of the intersessional activities

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Planning activities- First planning exercise

• Submission of digital requirements 28 February
  2005.
• Submission of administrative declarations 17
  June 2005.
• Equivalent Reference situation 28 February
  2005.
• Results provided during the IPG-1 meeting (from
  4 to 7 July 2005).
• IPG-1
• reviewed the results and the associated issues
  (including the working assumptions adopted by the
  PXT for the conduct of the first planning
  exercise),
• provided instructions to the PXT for the
  subsequent phases of the planning process.

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Planning activities- Additional results

• PXT to carry out additional studies using relaxed
  the planning criteria and additional
  administrative declarations.
• Results provided during the WPIPG held on 28 and
  29 September 2005.

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Planning activities- Draft Plan

• Submission of digital requirements 31 October
  2005
• Submission of administrative declarations 27
  January 2006
• Reference situation 31 October 2005, from which
  were excluded those analogue broadcasting
  assignments as requested by the administrations
  concerned.
• Results
• First synthesis during the IPG-2 meeting -20-24
  February 2006-
• reviewed the results of the first synthesis of
  the draft plan, prepared by the Planning Exercise
  Team (PXT), and several associated issues.
• formulated recommendations to the administrations
  of the Member States, to the PXT and to the
  Radiocommunication Bureau,
• instructed the PXT to conduct the second
  synthesis of the draft plan, based on additional
  administrative declarations.
• Second synthesis The PXT conducted the second
  synthesis of the draft plan using the indications
  in the Report from RRC-04 and the conclusions of
  IPG and WPIPG in this respect.

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Planning activities- General comparison of the
results of the intersessional planning activities
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Planning activities- General comparison of the
results of the intersessional planning activities
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Second session of RRC

• Name The Regional Radiocommunication Conference
  (RRC) 2006, RRC-06
• Date from 15 May to 16 June 2006
• Place Geneva
• Objective produce a plan for digital terrestrial
  broadcasting in the 174 230 MHz and 470
  862 MHz , for the planning area, which comprises
  parts of Region 1, including the territories of
  the Islamic Republic of Iran, but excluding the
  territory of Mongolia.

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Structure of the Conference

• Committee 1 Steering Committee.
• Committee 2 Credentials Committee.
• Committee 3 Budget Control Committee.
• Committee 4 Planning Committee to conduct the
  required planning activities and to establish the
  frequency plans, for terrestrial digital
  broadcasting and the associated analogue plan in
  the frequency bands 174-230 MHz and 470-862 MHz.

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Structure of the Conference (2)

• Committee 5 Regulatory Committee to develop a
  draft of a new regional agreement for the RRC-06
  planning area, and for the concerned frequency
  bands, including
• Regulatory, procedural and technical aspects
  relating to the use of the bands 174-230 MHz and
  470-862 MHz by the broadcasting service and the
  sharing with other primary services
• the relationship between the above-mentioned
  agreement and the Stockholm 1961 and Geneva 1989
  Agreements with a view to harmonizing the scope
  of application of each of these three Agreements.
• Committee 6 Editorial Committee.
• Working Group of the Plenary to consider and
  review the working assumptions regarding the
  missing planning parameters/criteria and other
  technical elements which are relevant for
  establishment of the frequency plans for
  terrestrial digital broadcasting in the frequency
  bands.

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Planning process- COM 4 working arrangements
relating to data treatment and planning
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Planning process Decisions regarding the conduct
of the Planning process

• working assumptions as presented in document
  RRC06/41
• Subdivision of the RRC-06 planning area on 5
  areas
• Establishment of 5 Coordination and Negotiation
  Groups (CNGs)
• Generation of requirements for the Member States
  which did not submit any requirements (GNE, LBR,
  RRW, SOM, SRL and STP) and decided to include
  them in the first iteration.
• Representation of absent Administrations by the
  Bureau
• The reference situation for analogue television
  in the bands 174-230 MHz and 470-862 MHz,
  associated with the reference date of 31 October
  2005, has been amended.

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Planning process - Reference situation

• For the territories governed by the ST61 or the
  GE89 Agreements frequency assignments as
  included in BR IFIC No. 2569 (date 16 May 2006),
  and frequency assignments on channel M5
  (170-177 MHz) for MRC.
• For the territories not governed by the ST61 or
  the GE89 Agreements the latest updated version
  of the RCC List (frequency assignments
  successfully coordinated by 15 March 2006).

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Planning process - Reference situation (2)

• MIFR assignments recorded before 31 December 1989
  which have no equivalents in the current ST61 and
  GE89 Plans have been deleted, except 22.
• Reference situation for other primary terrestrial
  services included those eligible frequency
  assignments
• that fully meet the requirements mentioned in
  1.7.2 of the RRC-04 Report,
• have been notified to the Bureau by 15 March
  2006, and
• for which the associated information with R06
  notice forms was received by the Bureau by 21
  April 2006.

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Planning process - Planning options

• Number and type(s) of the planning options
• Study case 1 the draft plan included all
  analogue television assignments in the reference
  situation, in accordance with the indications
  from the administrations concerned, and all
  complying frequency assignments to primary
  services other than broadcasting.
• Study case 2 AIOX all analogue (A) television
  assignments were included (I) in the reference
  situation, in accordance with the indications
  from the administrations concerned. The
  assignments to primary services other (O) than
  broadcasting in the reference situation were
  excluded (X).
• Study case 3 AXOI were included all complying
  frequency assignments to primary services other
  than broadcasting, in accordance with the
  indications from the administrations concerned.
  The analogue television assignments in the
  reference situation were excluded.
• Study case 4 AXOX were excluded all analogue
  television assignments in the reference situation
  and all assignments to primary services other
  than broadcasting in the reference situation.

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Planning process - The Planning option

• the conference decided to conduct all four
  planning iterations using one single planning
  option case study 3 (AXOI), i.e
• all eligible frequency assignments to primary
  terrestrial services other than broadcasting,
  included in the reference situation established
  by RRC-06, were taken into account in the design
  of the Plan.
• The analogue television assignments, which are
  included in the reference situation established
  by RRC-06, were not taken into account in the
  design of the Plan.
• Complementary analysis show the
  incompatibilities between the digital Plan and
  the analogue Plan during transition period.

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Planning process - Planning iterations

• 1st ITERATION during the first week,
• the deadline for submission of requirements
  (replacement file) in accordance with the
  decisions of the third Plenary was scheduled for
  Thursday, 18 May 2006 at 1200 hours.
• The deadline for submission of administrative
  declarations (complete file) was Friday,
  19 May 2006 at 1800 hours.
• 2nd and 3rd ITERATION during the second and
  third week,
• deadline for the submission of changes to the
  requirements was Thursday, at 1800 hours,
• deadline for submission of administrative
  declarations (additions, modifications and
  suppressions) was Friday at 1800 hours.
• 4th and last ITERATION (Final Plan) the
  activities were advanced by one day, i.e.
• the deadline for the submission of changes to the
  requirements is Wednesday, 7 June 2006 at
  1800 hours,
• the deadline for submission of administrative
  declarations is Thursday, 8 June 2006 at
  1800 hours.

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Planning process- Planning iteration Schedule of
activities for a planning iteration
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Comparison of the results relating to the four
iterations

• Band III

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Comparison of the results relating to the four
iterations

• Band IV

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Output of the Conference RRC-06PLANS

• Plans for the bands III 174-230 MHz, IV
  470-582 MHz and V 582-862 MHz 
• GE06D Plan of digital assignments and
  allotments, composed by
• Part 1, for digital broadcasting in Band III
  (174-230 MHz), with provisions for T-DAB and
  DVB-T
• Part 2, for digital broadcasting in Bands IV
  and V (470-862 MHz), with provisions for DVB-T.
• GE06A Plan of analogue television assignments,
• GE06L the list of assignments to other primary
  terrestrial services,
• For Morocco, the analogue Plan covers the band
  170-230 MHz.

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GE06 MODIFICATION/NOTIFICATION
GE06D Plan
70491 Assignments / Allotments at the end of the
RRC-06 conference
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GE06 MODIFICATION/NOTIFICATION
GE06A Plan
94531 Analogue assignments at the end of the
RRC-06 conference
From GE89 ? 12746 From ST61 ?
72148 From PLN_EXT ? 9615 From MIFR ?
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Output of the Conferences Final Acts

• The Regional Radiocommunication Conference of the
  revision of the Stockholm 1961 Agreement
  (RRC-06-Rev.ST61) (http//www.itu.int/md/R06-RRC.0
  6.EUR-R-0001/en)
• The Regional Radiocommunication Conference of the
  revision of Geneva 1989 Agreement (RRC-06-Rev.
  GE89) (http//www.itu.int/md/R06-RRC.06.AFR-R-0001
  /en )
• The Regional Radiocommunication Conference 2006
  for planning of the digital terrestrial
  broadcasting service in parts of Regions 1 and 3,
  in the frequency bands 174-230 MHz and 470-862
  MHz (RRC-06) (http//www.itu.int/md/R06-RRC.06-R-0
  001/en)

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Output of RRC-06 Transition period

• Definition
• The Transition period started on 17 June 2006 at
  0001 hours UTC
• assignments in the analogue Plan (as specified in
   3.1.2 of Article 3) shall be protected.
• The Transition period shall end
• on 17 June 2015 at 0001 hours UTC (for UHF bands
  in all countries for VHF in all countries except
  those that opted for 17 June 2020) .
• on 17 June 2020 at 0001 hours UTC for the
  countries
• Algeria (People's Democratic Republic of),
  Burkina Faso, Cameroon (Republic of), Congo
  (Republic of the), Côte d'Ivoire (Republic of),
  Egypt (Arab Republic of), Gabonese Republic,
  Ghana, Guinea (Republic of), Iran (Islamic
  Republic of), Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of), Mali
  (Republic of), Morocco (Kingdom of), Mauritania
  (Islamic Republic of), Nigeria (Federal Republic
  of), Syrian Arab Republic, Sudan (Republic of
  the), Chad (Republic of), Togolese Republic,
  Tunisia, Yemen (Republic of).
• For the following administrations which were not
  present at RRC-06, namely Benin (Republic of),
  Central African Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia
  (Federal Democratic Republic of), Guinea-Bissau
  (Republic of), Equatorial Guinea (Republic of),
  Liberia (Republic of), Madagascar (Republic of),
  Niger (Republic of the), Democratic Republic of
  the Congo, Sao Tome and Principe (Democratic
  Republic of), Sierra Leone and Somali Democratic
  Republic, the date of the end of the transition
  period in the VHF band (174-230 MHz), unless any
  of the aforementioned administrations
  communicates to the Bureau during the 90-day
  period from the end of RRC-06 that it selects
  17 June 2015 at 0001 hours UTC.

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Output of the Conference RRC-06 Actions after
the Transition period

• the provisions of  4.1 of Article 4 referring to
  the modification of the analogue Plan do not
  apply ANYMORE
• remarks with respect to analogue assignments do
  not apply ANYMORE.
• the Bureau shall
• Cancel the corresponding entries in the analogue
  Plan
• review the status of the assignments which were
  contained in the analogue Plan and recorded in
  the MIFR ( 12.7 of article)
• invite the administrations to cancel the
  corresponding entries in the MIFR
• administrations may request the Bureau to cancel
  the corresponding assignments, or
• continue to operate them, under the conditions
  that these analogue assignments
• were contained in the Plan and already brought
  into use, and
• shall not cause unacceptable interference to, and
  shall not claim protection from, any assignments
  in conformity with the Agreement and its
  associated Plans (see  5.1.2 of Article 5).

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Impact of GE06 on the existing Plans

• GE89 Plan covers now the following bands
• Band I 47-68 MHz, (limited to 54-68 MHz in BOT,
  BDI, LSO, MWI NMB, AFS, SWZ, COG, ZMB and ZWE)
• Band III 230-238 MHz and 246-254 MHz, (for BOT,
  LSO, MWI, MOZ, NMB, AFS, SWZ, ZMB and ZWE subject
  to agreement obtained under RR9.21)
• ST61 Plan covers now the following bands
• Band I 41-68 MHz
• Band II 87.5-100 MHz
• Band III 162-174 MHz.

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