Business Review 1996/1997 - Managing the Spectrum - The Radio Equipment Certification Unit

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The Radio Equipment Certification Unit, formed following the re-organisation of the Agency in January 1997, provides the Agency with:

	A full range of radio equipment and EMC certification facilities against National and European standards.
	The focus for radio equipment and systems standardisation, mainly in ETSI, within the Agency including co-ordination of the public enquiry and voting processes.
	The focus for EMC standardisation within the Agency in BSI, CENELEC and CISPR.

The Unit provides the international community with the President of CISPR (international EMC body) - Peter Kerry - who is also responsible for the EMC policy aspects within the Agency. In addition Olly Wheaton (Head of the Unit) is the chairman of the new ETSI Technical Committee - EMC and Radio Spectrum Matters (TC-ERM) - which is responsible for the preparation of EMC standards and the preparation and co-ordination of the standardisation activity within ETSI to provide for compatibility between different systems and services.

Notes
i)	Includes fixed radio-relay and millimetric radio-relay links, and scanning telemetry links.
ii)	Includes Port Operations Radio, Maritime Business Radio & Maritime Navigational Aids.
iii)	Includes all types of PMR, Police & Fire, and Local Authority Emergency Alarm licences (LA Emergency Alarms included in 'Telemetry etc' category in 1986).
iv)	Includes Radio Paging (Standard) and private Wide Area Paging (also Regional WAP Networks up to 31/3/95 - see Note (v) below).
v)	Introduced in 1996.
vi)	Includes Band III National & Regional Trunked Services, National & Regional Wide Area Paging Networks, National Public Data Networks, Cellular Radio Operators, and Public Communication Networks (Regional WAP Networks included in the PBR paging figures prior to 31/3/96).
vii)	Includes Telecommand & Teleapproach Radio (free licences issued for a wide range of devices from the beginning of 1987 in advance of exemption from licensing).
viii)	This category became licence exempt in April 1995.
ix)	In 1989 the 3 categories were replaced by a single T & D licence, and suppressed radiation T & D became licence exempt on certain frequency bands.

TABLE 6: KEY LICENSE TRENDS
Licenses	31/03/86	31/03/87	31/03/88	31/03/89	31/03/90	31/03/91	31/03/92	31/03/93	31/03/94	31/03/95	31/03/96	31/03/97
Aeronautical
1) Ground stations/Nav aids 2) Aircraft	1,558 4,152	1,472 5,193	1,585 5,285	1,630 5,771	1,631 6,062	1,734 6,117	1,890 6,558	2,094 6,457	1,780 6,250	1,780 6,323	2,433 6,376	2,352 6,493
Total	5,710	6,665	6,870	7,401	7,693	7,851	8,448	8,551	8,030	8,103	8,809	8,845
Amateur & CB radio
1) Amateur 2) CB	56,346 139,690	57,692 121,696	58,170 108,665	58,754 93,284	59,625 80,477	60,885 69,803	61,443 64,944	59,243 53,926	63,033 50,704	61,457 55,786	61,410 52,047	61,067 47,603
Total	196,036	179,388	166,835	152,038	140,102	130,688	126,387	113,169	113,737	117,243	113,457	108,670
Broadcasting
1) TV & Radio 2) Programme making and special events	- -	- -	- -	- -	- -	28 310	31 464	37 956	53 1,328	95 1,635	101 1,785	170 1,997
Total	-	-	-	-	-	338	495	993	1,381	1,730	1,886	2,167
Fixed Services
1) Fixed links (i)	145	166	180	191	209	238	264	305	373	465	510	572
Maritime
1) Coastal Stations (ii) 2) Ships	1,370 30,525	1,610 35,465	1,640 38,173	1,623 41,706	1,510 46,501	1,630 48,984	1,612 52,082	1,622 54,568	1,566 56,372	1,791 56,747	1,524 56,755	1,406 57,628
Total	31,895	37,075	39,813	43,329	48,011	50,614	53,694	56,190	57,938	58,538	58,279	59,034
Private Business Radio
1) PMR (iii) 2) Private Paging (iv)	16,831 9,191	16,971 10,401	17,633 10,293	19,494 11,268	22,503 10,765	23,605 10,046	27,919 10,315	27,442 10,156	28,202 10,692	28,859 11,250	30,364 11,468	29,734 10,102
Total	26,022	27,372	27,926	30,762	33,268	33,651	38,234	37,598	38,894	40,109	41,832	39,836
Short Range Business Radio (v)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	3,151
Public Mobile Communications
1) CBS 2) Public Systems (vi)	634 7	609 9	664 16	784 17	787 17	831 24	1,023 22	901 32	941 32	941 50	934 54	992 28
Total	641	618	680	801	804	855	1,045	933	973	991	988	1,020
Space Services	-	-	-	-	6	6	11	47	77	79	125	171
Technology Development
1) Telemetry etc (vii) & (viii) 2) Radar level gauges 3) Special 4) Temporary use 5) Radiating (ix) 6) Suppressed radiation (ix) 7) Training establishment radio (ix)	13,076 - 124 - 729 377 93	14,489 - 121 - 784 392 92	22 - 211 - 801 391 92	110 - 100 - 600 449 95	99 - 100 - 588 - -	103 - 40 - 600 - -	66 - 7 - 795 - -	70 12 9 - 668 - -	56 36 6 - 785 - -	53 60 5 21 730 - -	- 88 6 15 762 - -	- 71 6 31 739 - -
Total	14,399	15,878	1,517	1,354	787	743	868	759	883	869	871	847