The eighth meeting of project team D (PTD) of CEPT’s CPG was held on 25-29 March in Tallinn, Estonia, and attended by about 65 participants, including the observer from the European Communications Office (ECO) and representatives from industry and/or operators (Apple GmbH, Apple UK Limited, ARRIS Group Inc, Bolt&Yurdal Consulting ApS, Broadcom Ltd, Continental, Cisco Systems, DARC, ECO, Geyser-Telecom Ltd(RUS), IARU Region 1, International Union of Railways, UIT/BR, Meteo France, Ministry of Defence of the Netherlands, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate of the Netherlands, MOD, NRRL, Pole Star, Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) and NOKIA].
Regarding agenda point 1.1 (amateur), CPG PTD received various contributions, resulting in changes to the CEPT Brief, specifically:
- CEPT’s support for the allocation of up to 2 MHz in the 50-52 MHz frequency band for amateur service in Region 1, though consensus was not reached regarding status (primary or secondary);
- discussion of two proposals concerning the European common proposal (ECP): (i) allocation of 2 MHz, 50-52 MHz, on a secondary basis; and (ii) allocation of 2 MHz, 50-52 MHz: 50-50.5 MHz on a primary basis (protecting broadcasting service, mobile and wind profiler radars) and 50.5-52 MHz on a secondary basis.
Regarding agenda point 1.11 (tracksides), CPG PTD received various contributions, though no changes to the CEPT Brief resulted.
Regarding agenda point 1.12 (intelligent transport systems - ITS), only the wording of the CEPT Brief was updated, as the ECP had already been approved at a past meeting of the CPG.
Regarding agenda point 1.16 (radio local area network – RLAN – in 5 GHz):
- the ECPs for the bands 5250-5350 MHz, 5350-5470 MHz and 5850-5925 MHz were approved at the last CPG meeting;
- with respect to the 5150-5250 MHz band: with the reservations of Russia, PTD finalised the ECP, which proposes that wireless access systems (WAS)/RLAN continue to operate in an indoor environment, and depending on the results of studies, may be used in vehicles, trains and aircraft, though with limited power. The administrations should take measures to protect incumbent services if the WAS/RLAN operate in an outdoor environment;
- 5725-5850 MHz band: as no new studies and/or mitigation techniques for protection of fixed satellite service (FSS), radio-navigation, road transport and traffic telematics (RTTT) and industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) applications were presented, PTD focused on discussion of the ECP. This resulted in the production of a new proposed ECP, to include a footnote with the countries that will identify spectrum for primary mobile service, except aeronautical, with WAS/RLAN authorised to operate under the terms of Recommendation ITU R M.1450.
The next meeting will be held on 25-28 June 2019 in Switzerland.
