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Responses to the consultation document - Use of the 2010 to 2025 MHz Band for the Provision of 3G Telecommunications Services |
The Radiocommunications Agency launched
a consultation exercise on 6 October 2003 to seek views on the use of the 2010
to 2025 MHz Band for the Provision of 3G Telecommunications Services. Views
on the following questions were sought:
| Question 1 | Should the 2010 to 2025 MHz band be retained for UTRA TDD self-provided applications operating in self-coordinating mode? |
| Question 2 | In what timescale do you anticipate self-provided, self-coordinating UTRA TDD equipment becoming available? |
| Question 3 | Do you think that demand for UTRA TDD use in the 2010 to 2025 MHz band has been affected by other licence-exempt spectrum (e.g. 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) becoming available? |
| Question 4 | What are your own estimates of demand for UTRA TDD use in the 2010 to 2025 MHz band? Please indicate potential products and applications. |
| Question 5 | How long should we wait to evaluate demand for licence-exempt use before considering auctioning the band or otherwise making it available for licensed UTRA TDD use? |
| Question 6 | Should the 2010 to 2025 MHz band be considered for the provision of commercial telecommunications services under a light licensing regime? |
| Question 7 | If a light licensing regime is introduced, how should this be defined and implemented? |
| Question 8 | Is it viable for the 2020 to 2025 MHz sub-band to be made available for licensed (high-power) UTRA TDD use separately from the 2010 to 2020 MHz sub-band? |
| Question 9 | Should the 2010 to 2025 MHz band be considered for applications on a technology-neutral basis (in particular for technologies outside the 3G/IMT-2000 family), for either licensed use or licence-exempt, self-provided, self-coordinated use? |
Question 10 |
Should decisions on the use of the 2010 to 2025 MHz band be postponed until after the frequency arrangements for the 2500 to 2690 MHz band are finalised at the end of 2004, in case these arrangements encompass use of the 2010 to 2025 MHz band as well? |
| Question 11 | Should alternative spectrum management models, which could be applied under a spectrum trading regime, be considered for the 2010 to 2025 MHz band? If so, which models do you consider most appropriate? |
The consultation recognised that
there may be scenarios for the use of the band 2010 to 2025 GHz that could incorporate
external pairings with 3G Expansion Spectrum, 2500 to 2690 MHz. In parallel
to this consultation, the Agency also consulted on ‘Consideration
of Possible Frequency Plans for the 3G Expansion Spectrum, 2500 to 2690 MHz’
(October 2003) (164KB)
. You can see the results of that consultation here.
The Radiocommunications Agency
/ Ofcom thanks all those who responded to the consultation. We received a number
of confidential responses that will not be published. All views received will
be considered carefully.
The responses are listed below. All are in MS Word format, unless otherwise
specified. Those that were marked as confidential are not included.
| Reponse | File Size |
BT
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231 kb |
| Hutchinson 3G | 28 kb |
| Intellect (1) - Intellect (2) | 133 kb/133 kb |
| IPwireless | 75 kb |
| Mason | 210 kb |
| Nokia | 37 kb |
| O2 | 111 kb |
| Orange | 38 k |
| Oak Global | 167 kb |
| Philips | 38 kb |
| SMAG | 53 kb |
| Tmobile | 126 kb |
| Vodafone | 398 kb |
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