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[HCDX] Nigeria: World Radiocommunication Conference Opens in Geneva
Nigeria: World Radiocommunication Conference Opens in Geneva
http://allafrica.com/stories/200710240327.html
24 October 2007
Posted to the web 24 October 2007
Betrand Nwankwo
The World Radiocommunication Conference has opened in Geneva,
Switzerland with veiw aim to address the worldwide use of radio
frequencies and to meet the global demand for spectrum, fuelled by
rapid technological development and growth in the information and
communication technology (ICT) sector.
A finite resource, radio-frequency spectrum is the bedrock of state-of-
the-art ICT, which, in turn is the driving force behind the world's
economic and social systems. The future points towards a wireless
world.
Last held in the summer of 2003, the World Radiocommunication
Conference (WRC-07) is the international forum for revising the Radio
Regulations - the international treaty governing the use of the radio-
frequency spectrum and satellite orbits.
WRC-07 will also deal with any radiocommunication questions with
worldwide ramifications. The WRC-07 agenda focuses on some 30
items related to almost all terrestrial and space radio services and
applications, including aeronautical telemetry and telecommand
systems, satellite services, mobile communications, maritime distress
and safety signals, digital broadcasting, satellites for meteorology, and
the prediction and detection of natural disasters.
The conference will consider options to improve the international
spectrum regulatory framework. It will also examine the evolution of
existing, emerging and future applications, systems and technologies in
order to meet the growing demand for spectrum, orbit access and
operations - an inevitable consequence of the accelerating
convergence of radiocommunications services as well as the rapidly
changing regulatory environment.
The four-week conference which will run until November 16, is
expected to be attended by about 3000 delegates across the world.
According the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), more than
1500 delegates were present on the opening day.
Addressing participants at the opening session, the chairman of WRC-
07, Mr Franc,ois Rancy said, "this Conference will influence the future
of international wireless communications. The objective of WRC-07 is
to allow each country to use the spectrum for its own needs, as long as
it does not affect the capacity of other countries to share the resource."
Mr Rancy said that it was an honour for him, for France and for Europe
to serve as chairman of WRC-07.
ITU secretary general, Dr Hamadoun Toure', while addressing the
conference said ICT is the only way through which the world can meet
the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDGs). "We will have to rely
on ICT to meet those targets. "ICT are omnipresent tools with profound
implications for all economic sectors," he said.
"The convergence of broadcasting, telecommunication and information
technologies create more potent and effective tools." Dr Toure' pointed
to the critical need of connecting remote and underserved regions of
the world to the benefits of ICT and to the importance of
radiocommunications in the event of a natural disaster.
"WRC-07 is the supreme instrument to maintain and update the
framework for international radiocommunications," said Mr Valery
Timofeev, director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau. "It will
continue the development that has taken place through recent
conferences to improve regulatory procedures and to provide frequency
and orbit resources for new technologies, which are essential for the
operation of all wireless services."
To prepare for a truly wireless future where ubiquitous systems using
spectrum will abound, the conference is expected to make decisions on
the most rational and efficient ways to exploit the limited resource of
radio-frequency spectrum and manage satellite orbits, critical and
increasingly valuable for the achievement of the global connectivity
goals in the 21st Century.
The issues to be debated and discussed during conference reflects the
pressing needs relating to spectrum and regulation for different wireless
services and applications:
new capabilities of systems, components and related aspects of third
generation and broadband wireless systems; access to spectrum for
the provision of aeronautical telemetry and telecommand systems
compatible with the increasing complexity of aircraft design and
shortened timescales for aircraft production; and monitoring of maritime
identification digits (MID) resource within Maritime Mobile Service
Identification (MMSI) number format
Other issues to be discussed at the conference include urgent
requirement for worldwide harmonisation of user requirements and
spectrum usage of electronic news gathering; procedures for the
introduction of high definition TV services; and revision of the regulatory
procedures applicable to satellite services, including the Plan for fixed-
satellite services that provide spectrum and orbit resources to the
Member States of ITU
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