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Report from the UMTS Forum

UMTS/IMT-2000 Spectrum

06/99

This report is produced by the UMTS Forum, an association of telecommunications operators, manufacturers and regulators who are active both in Europe and other parts of the world and who share the vision of UMTS. UMTS will be a member of the IMT-2000 family of standards. UMTS will move mobile communications forward from where we are today into the Information Society of third generation services, and will deliver speech, data, pictures, graphics, video communication and other wideband information direct to people on the move. The work to write the report has mainly been done in the Spectrum Aspects Group, a subgroup of the Forum. The main conclusions and recommendations in the report are supported by all operators and manufacturers of the UMTS Forum. The National Administrations that are members of the Forum have actively supported the development of the report. However, the Administrations cannot be bound by the detailed recommendations contained in the report. The report is a major input towards the preparations for the World Radio Conference WRC2000 and the decision making process on spectrum allocations for UMTS/IMT-2000 in a number of countries world-wide. It represents the consensus view on UMTS spectrum issues of the Forum members. It has been carefully developed and expanded over the past two year’s life of the Forum and considers the spectrum vision and the spectrum demand. The report is written to be of interest to parties world-wide involved in the future development of the mobile telecommunications industry. This report follows on from the first report of the UMTS Forum which dealt with a regulatory framework and spectrum aspects for UMTS [1]. Other outputs from the Forum cover areas of technical aspects [2], economic conditions [4], and licensing issues [5]. In order to help regulators with the implementation of UMTS spectrum licensing, the Forum has issued a report on minimum...