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International Telecommunication Union
Session 7:Regulatory issues,
their status and resolution
Conclusions &
Recommendations
Chair: Haim Mazar
ITU-T Workshop All Stars Access Network
Geneva, 2-4 June 2004
Worldwide, Regional and National Unlicensed and Unprotected RF
allocations, for Wireless Network Access (including Social Issues)
Haim Mazar
ITU-T
Deputy Director; Frequency Mgmt and Licensing; Ministry of Comm’s; Israel
Vice Chairman Study Group 9 (fixed service); ITU-R
[email protected]; [email protected]
o US provides more RF spectrum (power
and bandwidth) for network access,
to License exempt than Europe
o Europe is more liberal than USA in
equipment approval
o Licence-Exempt and Internet: the
growth due to unregulation
o More RF license exempt is needed to
citizens and industry
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Regulatory Framework for Implementing WiMAX
Mariana Goldhamer
Director – Strategic Technologies ALVARION
to implement WiMAX in lower frequencies :
o More Licensed spectrum needed
• Rural / sub-urban use
• Allow “Portable Internet” and VoD services together with FWA
o More Licensed Exempt spectrum needed
• Higher power
• The LE spectrum may be sliced / allocated, according to coexistence capabilities of different systems
• 802.11 and 802.16 have different co-existence approaches
• All systems may implement the “spectrum sharing” protocol
defined for a band
o Allocate the 90% not used spectrum for:
• Cognitive Radio / Light licensing
• Harmonized Spectrum
• Cost reduction by “factor of scale” effect
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Will EU rules on Network Access allow the deployment of
new broadband infrastructure in Europe?:
Ms M. Styliadou – Corning, Director, European Government Affairs
Basic Principles
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Technological Neutrality
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Regulatory Intervention limited to cases where there is no
effective competition
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Licensing Required only for scarce resources such as
frequencies or numbering
Remedies
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Transparency
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Non discrimination
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Accounting separation
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Access to and use of specific network facilities
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Price control and cost accounting obligations
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Retail obligations
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Comparison of access between the US and Europe: broadband
policy and deployment.
Mr. S. Marcus, Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall
Fund of the USA
Key regulatory issues are:
o bottleneck facilities
• Unbundling obligations (U.S. and E.U.)
• Bitstream access (E.U. only)
o Universal service obligations (neither to date)
Common objectives between the E.U. and USA
o Promote competition, and competitive entry
o Address any restrictions or distortions in
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competition
o Ensure that users derive maximum benefit in
terms of choice, price and quality
o Encourage efficient investment
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Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance of Public IP Network
Access Service
Greg Ratta T1S1 Vice Chairman VC & ITU-T SG 11VC
o The Service Specification Document of Public
IP Network Access Service (PIPNAS) contains
the electronic surveillance needs of USA law
enforcement for PIPNAS service, and forms the
basis for contributions submitted to standards
bodies and industry forums
o It is law enforcement’s goal to work with
industry in an effort to create a cost-effective
solution that balances privacy, national security
and public safety
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Panel- Cooperation in Standards Development
ITU-T
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ITU-R serves as an umbrella to regional
regulatory organizations (such as CEPT,
CITEL, FRATEL); ITU-T may serve as an
umbrella to standardization organizations,
such as ETSI, IEEE, TTC
o Worldwide standards versus digital video
regional standards ATSC, ISDB-T and DVB-T
o Convergence of the Fixed and Wireless
services and telephonies (i.e. in CEPT- ETC
and ERC converge into ECC)
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Conclusion
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o This session incorporates regulatory
issues common to all precedent
sessions
o The Network Access can be
promoted by appropriate national
policy, as achieved in Korea and
Japan
o ‘Light touch’ regulation and
License Exempt RF spectrum
contribute to the penetration of
broadband
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