1、 Rep. ITU-R BS.2105 1 REPORT ITU-R BS.2105*Information relating to the HF broadcasting service (2007) Radiocommunication Working Party 6E has received a number of input documents providing information on the HF broadcasting service. Although these documents have been taken into account in the revisi
2、on of the draft CPM text for WRC-07 Agenda item 1.13 it was felt that they contained a lot of valuable information which may of use in the future. Consequently, the contents of these documents have been used to create a preliminary draft New Report. Table 1 shows the spectrum allocated in Region 1 t
3、o the broadcasting service from 30 March 2009 in the range 4-10 MHz. Note that the amount of spectrum allocated in other regions, and the percentage, is different. TABLE 1 Spectrum allocated to the broadcasting service in the range 4-10 MHz Broadcasting service Exclusive allocations (kHz) Co-primary
4、 allocations (kHz) 5 900-5 950; 5 950-6 200; 7 200-7 300; 7 300-7 400 4 750-4 850(T); 4 850-4 995(T); 7 400-7 450; 9 400-9 500; 9 500-9 900 5 005-5 060(T) Exclusive (kHz) Co-primary (kHz) 1 050 17.50% 300 5% Co-primary (kHz) 300 5% FIXED, AERONAUTICAL MOBILE (OR), LAND MOBILE Annex 1 provides an ana
5、lysis of an Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) survey on broadcasting service requirements, Annex 2 provides an analysis of a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) questionnaire on future requirements for HF broadcasting, and Annex 3 provides revised HF broadcasting statistics. *Considering the posit
6、ion of Syria on behalf of the Aran States (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic and Tunisia) with regard to the work on WRC-07 Agenda item 1.13, Syria continues to object to the content of this Report.
7、 2 Rep. ITU-R BS.2105 Annex 1 Results of ABU survey on broadcasting requirements Need for additional spectrum The need for additional spectrum for the broadcasting service has been clearly established, based on the data provided by the regional coordination groups operating, and established, the pro
8、visions of Article 12 of the Radio Regulations. An independent ABU survey among its shortwave broadcasters, amounting to around half the worlds shortwave broadcasters, clearly established the need for additional spectrum to the tune of 20%. A cumulative total of 3 360 kHz is available for considerat
9、ion under Resolution 544 (WRC-03), which would give considerable scope to satisfy the main point of the agenda item. Spectrum congestion and monetary loss The current congestion in the HF broadcasting bands results in severe co-channel and/adjacent channel interference among the broadcasting service
10、s, making these either totally unintelligible to the listeners or quite impaired in quality. Administrations incur substantive expenses on these services in terms of programme (content) production, transmission operations and in transmitting the services through high power shortwave transmitters. Th
11、e transmitting infrastructural facilities needed are quite extensive and include vast antenna fields, together with complicated antenna changing operations. The electric supply charges are also huge amounts. However, because of the interference situation, the entire effort and the funds expended bec
12、ome a dead loss as no service is rendered1. This factor alone emphasizes the need for additional spectrum to be allocated to the broadcasting service. Broadcasting considerations Allocation to broadcasting service and transition 1) ABU strongly approves of and supports the case for extra broadcastin
13、g spectrum as indicated in Resolution 544 (WRC-03). The ABU encourages administrations to satisfy this need while recognizing the need for adequate spectrum of other potentially affected services in the range 4-10 MHz and innovative ways and approaches to address that issue outside of normal strateg
14、ies, e.g., more efficient and dynamic sharing between fixed and mobile services, more intelligent use of spectrum in a hierarchical security system where risk assessment decides spectrum use for security. 2) ABU supports adequate compensation to the spectrum loss to other services as a result of sat
15、isfying Resolution 544 (WRC-03). 3) A sufficiently long transition period will be a pivotal factor to help management of that transition by administrations. 4) ABU supports the approach that an adequate transition mechanism be set up by WRC-07 in a new resolution to meet this need, e.g., addressing
16、the problem right now but with a solution that gets implemented slowly but definitively. 1To get an idea of the loss involved, considering an average cost of transmission to be USD 2 000 per hour. Out of the 12 000 h of transmissions every day, currently about 33% are facing interference. This amoun
17、ts to a cumulative loss of about USD 2 890 800 000 (2 000 x 12 000 x 0.33 x 365) suffered by the administrations. Rep. ITU-R BS.2105 3 5) ABUs view is that after implementation of the necessary extra spectrum for the Broadcasting Service, administrations will have little need for scheduling broadcas
18、ting transmissions outside the procedures for RR Article 12 in the bands below 10 MHz or in the Tropical bands. Administrations may need to generally discourage such activity. 6) ABU supports the view of some administrations that additional frequency allocation is described in the Resolution 544 (WR
19、C-03) and only broadcasting service should be given more frequency spectrum in the bands 4-10 MHz. 7) ABU does not favour revisiting the 7 MHz area in relation to the amateur service. 8) ABU does not consider the “No change” method as satisfying this agenda item. Sharing of spectrum 1) Exclusion of
20、the bands associated with RR Appendices 25, 26, 27 and 17 Part B leads to a situation where the discussions are mainly focussed on the fixed, land mobile and broadcasting services and partly to the maritime service. This narrowing of the agenda item makes make full alignment for the services very di
21、fficult. Full alignment however is possible but extremely difficult and therefore not envisaged as a viable option in the short to medium term. 2) The HF frequency range, including below 10 MHz is of critical importance to defence radio communication services and their respective users. Therefore, u
22、nconstrained access to the existing spectrum resources allocated to the fixed and mobile services between 4 MHz and 10 MHz will remain an essential requirement for administrations. Current and future operational capabilities require higher data rates and will result in the need for additional HF spe
23、ctrum under certain scenarios of usage. 3) Some administrations are considering sharing scenarios to the fixed- and mobile services to provide additional bands from which to select the most suitable frequency, particularly when using adaptive control techniques. This will positively mitigate the con
24、cerns of some of the users of fixed and mobile services, although mobile services will argue that such mitigation may not be enough. The WRC is encouraged to take a more realistic and pragmatic view. 4) Such sharing arrangement may be implemented by the introduction of digital technology, adaptive c
25、ontrol techniques for the fixed land mobile and maritime mobile services offering dynamic frequency selection, and the application of appropriate assignment rules. 5) ABU supports the need for increased sharing between services in the HF bands as the only way to satisfy many conflicting requirements
26、 simultaneously. 6) Spectrum sharing between the broadcasting service and other services in the bands is not generally feasible. Time sharing of the frequency channels is not a practicable proposition and needs to be ruled out, however where it can work, it could be considered further based on the n
27、eeds of both services involved. 7) Some administrations believe that, prior to any changes to the HF channel plans, actual usage, coordination, and deployment of HF systems by the existing services should be taken into account for each services requirements along with the technical solutions. 8) Man
28、y factors have emerged during the preparations for WRC-07, some of them having a strong degree of consensus. ABU acknowledges the role of adaptive systems in achieving most effective and flexible way of operating within limited spectrum resources. Widespread adoption of such strategies will pave the
29、 way for identifying additional spectrum (250/800 kHz) needed for the broadcasting service. 9) Some administrations intend to promote the sharing scenario in portions of the new Appendix 17 bands between the fixed- land mobile and maritime mobile services in order 4 Rep. ITU-R BS.2105 to realize ext
30、ra spectrum for the broadcasting service. This may be fully examined and supported by all interested administrations. 10) While some administrations take a negative view of other administrations broadcasting into their territories, it should be clearly borne in mind that this agenda item deals with
31、spectrum issues and spectrum is needed for each administration to do its own broadcasting as well, so that aspect is very important for all administrations with any view. Annex 2 Analysis of results from a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) questionnaire on the future requirements for HF broadcasting
32、 1 Background The Agenda for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Radio Conference to be held in 2007 (WRC-07) includes an item (1.13) dealing with, among other things, consideration of additional spectrum for the broadcasting service in the range 4-10 MHz. Broadcasting statistics d
33、erived from the operational database created by the informal coordination groups under RR Article 12 confirm the need for additional spectrum to reduce the level of congestion. However, these are just for previous and current broadcasting seasons. To complete the justification for additional spectru
34、m, a forecast of HF broadcasting requirements is needed for the mid- and long-term future (10 years or more). A questionnaire, shown in Appendix 3 to this Annex, was designed by the EBU to enable an initial response on the justification for additional HF spectrum. Alongside existing analogue service
35、s, one of the issues for the mid- to longer term future is the impact the use of digital modulation techniques will have on spectrum requirements. The recommended digital system for the HF bands is Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM). Transmissions using DRM were officially launched on 16thJune 2003 to coi
36、ncide with WRC-03. In February 2006, more than 600 DRM transmitting hours per day are on air. It is recognized that providing a realistic forecast for 5 years or more is very difficult. However, providing the “best guess” forecast will be very helpful in determining spectrum needs for the HF broadca
37、sting service into the future. 2 Results of the analysis Appendix 1 to this Annex provides the detailed analysis of the replies to the Questionnaire based upon 26 replies from which the following main features may be extracted: A) Future plans regarding HF frequency requirements (Q.6) For the next 1
38、0 years More than 55% of the respondents anticipate increasing their HF requirements. About 27% of the respondents anticipate having the same HF requirements. 8 % of the respondents anticipate reducing their HF requirements. The remaining respondents cannot anticipate. Rep. ITU-R BS.2105 5 For the n
39、ext 15 years More than 31% of the respondents anticipate increasing their HF requirements. About 23% of the respondents anticipate having the same HF requirements. 4% of the respondents anticipate reducing their HF requirements. The remaining respondents cannot anticipate. Partial conclusion HF spec
40、trum occupancy is unlikely to decrease in the coming 10 to 15 years. B) Usage of digital modulation (DRM) in the HF bands (Q.7) More than 60% of the respondents are planning to use DRM in HF in the coming 10 to 15 years. C) Target areas and service periods (Q.8) Europe More than 60% of the responden
41、ts will target Europe during breakfast, driving and evening-times. However, there will be a high number of transmissions all day long. Africa More than 50% of the respondents will target Africa during morning and evening-times. Middle-East About 50% of the respondents will target Middle-East during
42、morning and evening-times. Asia More than 50% of the respondents will target Asia during morning and evening-times. Americas About 50% of the respondents will target Americas during morning and evening-times. Oceania More than 20% of the respondents will target Oceania during evening-times. Partial
43、conclusion Peak time broadcasting in most targets is forecast to be morning and evening. Appropriate transmissions will require, in general, the usage of the bands located in the 4-10 MHz HF spectrum. D) Co-program and co-timed DRM and Analogue transmissions (Q.9) During a transition period, (5 to 1
44、0 years) broadcasters will not give up analogue transmissions and may transmit to some targets in analogue and DRM. After a transition period (beyond 10 years), broadcasters will mainly use DRM. Partial conclusion DRM will be progressively introduced and will not replace very quickly the analogue tr
45、ansmissions. 6 Rep. ITU-R BS.2105 Appendix 2 to this Annex provides the list of organizations having responded and those from which replies were still awaited at the date of issuing the presentReport2. 3 Overall conclusion From the EBU Questionnaire it is recognized that providing a realistic foreca
46、st for 5 years or more is very difficult, however it may be concluded from the results: HF broadcasting will still be used in the next 10 to 15 years. HF spectrum occupancy is unlikely to decrease in the next 10 to 15 years. DRM will progressively replace analogue transmissions. Peak-times, such as
47、morning and evening-times and also continuous transmissions to relatively small regional targets, such as Europe, will require the operation of HF frequencies in the 4-10 MHz bands. Appendix 1 to Annex 1 Summary results Questionnaire on future requirements for HF broadcasting organizations replying
48、Q.1 Name of Organization Q.2 FMO Q.3 Organization Q.4 HF bands for broadcasting Q.5 type of broadcasting Austrian Broadcasting Services ORS SP(1)Yes International Bulgarian National Radio BUL PSB(2)Yes International, National and Local Odasiljaci I Veze d.o.o. HRT SP Yes International Radio Prague T
49、CH PSB Yes International Tldiffusion de France (TDF) TDF SP Yes International, National and Local Radio France Internationale (RFI) TDF PSB Yes International Arbeitsgemeinschaft des ffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten des Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD)/Institut fr Rundfunktechnik (IRT) DWL PSB Yes International 2A new release of this analysis will be issued to include further replies on the Questionnaire. Rep. ITU-R BS.2105 7 Q.1 Name of Organization Q.2 FMO Q.3 Organization Q.4 HF bands for broadcasting Q.5 type of broadcasting Deutsche Welle DWL PS
