The Finnish city of Turku hosted last 26-29 June the sixth meeting of the CPG in charge of preparing for the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It was chaired by Alexander Kühn of Germany and attended by 133 delegates from 33 administrations, observers, the European Commission and the European Communications Office (ECO).
The CPG is meant to prepare CEPT for WRC-19, supported by the four project teams set up at the beginning of the preparation cycle (CPG19 structure https://www.cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/cpg/page/cpg19-structure/). Those project teams discuss and develop briefs and, when consensual, European common proposals (ECPs) for each of the assigned WRC-19 agenda items (CEPT Briefs and ECPs for WRC-19
https://www.cept.org/ecc/groups/ecc/cpg/page/cept-briefs-and-ecps-for-wrc-19/), submitting them next for discussion and approval by the CPG.
The chairs of the CPG project teams presented summaries of the work carried out in their meetings since CPG19-5 (January 2018) along with new draft briefs for nearly all the WRC-19 agenda points. Several ECPs on already consolidated topics were debated, of which the following stand out:
- (1.2) establishes the effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) for ground stations of Earth exploration satellite service and satellite meteorology (MetSat) in the 401-403 MHz range, as well as for satellite mobile in the 399.9-400.5 MHz frequency band (uplink);
- (1.3) raises the allocation to MetSat (space-Earth) from secondary to primary status, besides allocating to EESS (space-Earth) the 460-470 MHz band with primary status;
- (1.7) does not permit telemetry, tracking and command (TTC) applications in the 148-161.9375 MHz, 161.9375-223 MHz and 335.4-410 MHz bands;
- (1.10) does not allocate additional spectrum to the Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS);
- (1.11) harmonises frequencies regionally or globally to support railway communication systems between trains and railways, in the scope of existing mobile service allocations in the Radio Regulations;
- (1.15) identifies the 275-296 GHz, 306-313 GHz, 318-333 GHz and 356-450 GHz bands for land mobile service (LMS) and fixed service (FS);
- (1.16) does not permit use of the 5250-5350 MHz, 5350-5470 MHz and 5850-5925 ranges for wireless access systems, including radio local area networks (WAS/RLAN).
The seventh meeting of the CPG will be held this coming 27-30 November in the Netherlands.
