UK Spectrum Policy Forum Simon Saunders, Director - Technology, Real Wireless Cluster 1 progress summary More information at: http://www.techuk.org/about/uk-spectrum-policy-forum All rights reserved

1. Cluster 1: Spectrum Applications and Demand
Short range devices (incl. Wi-Fi)
Cluster 1 Meeting
30th September 2014
Prof. Simon Saunders
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2. Agenda
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3. The UK Spectrum Policy Forum
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UK Social and
Economic
Value
Cluster 1:
Applications
and Sector
needs
Cluster 2:
Spectrum
release and
access
mechanisms
Cluster 3:
Social Value
of Spectrum
Government and Ofcom:
• Political, Economic, Legal
and Social Context
• Goals, policy and regulation
• Sector needs
• Current spectrum
usage
• Future evolution
• Spectrum allocation
• Spectrum assignment
modes
• Technology evolution
• How to assign
value to uses of
spectrum of
benefit to society?
Steering
Board

4. Cluster 1 Terms of Reference
Overall goal:
• To promote a joined-up understanding of current and future
spectrum needs across UK users, thereby assisting in maximising associated
benefits (social and economic) and by ensuring spectrum supply can be efficiently
matched to those needs.
Specific Aims
• To identify and characterise the UK private and public sectors which have distinct
dependencies on spectrum
• To determine the current needs and usage of spectrum and associated technology
• To determine the expectations of change in sector service needs and associated
usage of spectrum
• To determine the potential level of flexibility for modes of spectrum access
amongst licenced, licence-exempt and intermediate modes (e.g. licensed shared
access, cognitive access etc.)
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5. Cluster 1: Spectrum Applications & Demand
Progress summary: September ‘14
• Cluster 1 has gathered views on spectrum needs from: space, broadcast, PMR,
energy utilities and PMSE, plus a cross-sectoral examination of long-term UHF
policy issues
• Scheduled meetings will address transportation, mobile, defence and short-
range applications
• A deliverable report is planned to record these inputs, identify ‘pinch points’
and areas for progress, and to drive the work of the other clusters
• A subgroup led by Simon Pike with cross-sectoral inputs and supported by
Ofcom has generated a UK vision for the needs of 5G, which has been
presented to WP5D. The resulting diagrams have been incorporated in the
working document and a further input is planned.
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6. Cluster 1 Deliverable
• Scope:
• Sectoral summary of UK spectrum needs
• Identify ‘pinch points’ and ‘opportunities for
collaboration’ as input to SPF’s 2015 work
programme
• Audience:
• Government to inform future spectrum and
infrastructure policy
• Spectrum users to foster mutual understanding
and cooperation
• Cluster 3 to inform analysis of social and
economic benefits in common framework
• First draft circulated to SPF Steering Board:
• Introductory chapters
• Space sector chapter
• Remaining chapters to be completed by end
December for publication early in the New
Year
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7. Data being gathered for each sector in Cluster 1
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Scope of the sector
Contributions to social and economic value
Current and recent past status
Sector trends
Usage of technologies and spectrum
Expected changes to tech and spectrum
Longer-term (10-20 years) tech and spectrum
needs and options

8. Spectrum Usage Sectors
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Sector Status in Cluster 1
Utilities  16/9/13
Private Mobile Radio
- Business radio
- Emergency services
 11/12/13
Public (cellular) mobile  26/3/14
Broadcasting and entertainment (Delivery and content creation)  26/3/14
Space  22/5/14
Short range devices (incl. Wi-Fi) 30/9/14
Defence 30/9/14
Public (cellular) mobile 11/12/14
Transportation (aviation, road, rail, maritime) 11/12/14
Sectors not addressed to date:
- IoT / M2M
- Amateur radio
- Fixed broadband (and wireless front/backhaul)
- Smart cities
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