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Fixed Link Applications |
Introduction
Operational Trials
Opening the Band
Licensing and Registration
Licence Fees
European Developments
Advice on Equipment Notification
Introduction
The 65 GHz (64 to 66 GHz) band is a new fixed-link band, which we plan to open
for fixed point-to-point links on a 'light licensed' basis. Unlike other point-to-point
fixed-link bands, 65 GHz will not have a channel plan and a minimum link length
policy will not be applied.
Licensees will be required to register all 65 GHz point-to-point links on an electronic registration system. Details of all registered 65 GHz links will be available to licensees via the RA website. The band is intended to be self-regulated, whereby it will be the customer’s responsibility to plan links as appropriate. All 65 GHz link registrations will be date-stamp prioritised. Hence, if a new link causes interference to an existing link, the new link will be responsible for taking the necessary interference mitigation action.
Operational
Trials
In order to trial this new light licensing process, RA is opening the band for
operational trials and will issue temporary licences from Monday 29 September
2003.
Opening
the Band
This will be notified through the Fixed Link Consultative Committee and the
RA website.
It is currently expected that any temporary trial licences will be converted into full licences enabling licensees to retain the trial assignments on the database.
Please complete the customer details section of an RA 8 application form and submit it with your initial list of 65 GHz links. Links for which licences have been issued will be stored electronically on our database.
Licensees will be able to consult our forthcoming website database to view all registered 65 GHz links with associated operating parameters.
65GHz.zip contains the following files:
To register a new 65 GHz link fill in ALL the fields in the file “65 GHz Notification form.xls” and email it to FTSLU65GHz@ra.gsi.gov.uk.
Note 1: All fields on this form are mandatory. Any missing or blank fields will result in a failed notification.
“65 GHz link registry.xls” is the registry of all known 65 GHz links in the UK. It also contains a list of all R&TTE notified equipment for the band, and a list of all known antennas.
Note 2: If you have notified a 65 GHz link but it is missing from this list, please contact the Fixed Links unit immediately on 0207 211 0573.
Licence
Fees
Each link will be charged £50 per year per link registered. There will
be no reduction in the fee for those cases where links are operated for periods
of less than 1 year.
European
Developments
RA has now notified the latest draft of the UK Radio Interface Regulations
2000 (IR2000) to the European Commission listing 65 GHz. RA has also initiated
discussions on how the band should be used within CEPT. All transmitted energy
must remain within the defined spectrum mask being developed within ETSI. The
block-edge mask being proposed in work item DTS/TM-4161 within ETSI TM4 will
apply until a consolidated position is reached and consolidated within a harmonised
standard. DTS/TM-4161 currently provides hard mask edges at 64.00 and 66.00
GHz. This is an early draft of the standard, and the stated assumptions and
parameters may change over time.
Advice on Equipment Notification
RA is not the competent body to advise manufacturers on which standards and
Directives their apparatus should be certified against. Therefore, we strongly
recommend that all manufacturers seek the opinion of a notified body to advise
them on which standards and Directives their equipment should be certified against.
Under Article 6.4 of the Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (R&TTE) Directive 1999/5/EC, all radio equipment operating in frequency bands whose use is not harmonised throughout the Community must be notified to the relevant national spectrum management authority.
This should be completed at least four weeks before the apparatus is placed on the domestic market.
All the responsibility resides with manufacturers to ensure that equipment complies with the R&TTE Directive. RA simply takes equipment notifications on trust.
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