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3rd ITU Regional Frequency Coordination Meeting

The 3rd ITU Regional Frequency Coordination Meeting for Central America and Caribbean Region, is a follow-up of the two previous meetings and a very important milestone for the process of regional frequency coordination. It will take place in Panama City, Panama, from 7 to 11 May 2018.

 

The Regional Frequency Coordination Meetings for Central America and Caribbean Region are intended to facilitate the process of transition from analog to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) and allocation of the Digital Dividend.

The first and second coordination meetings, which took place respectively in Managua, Nicaragua from 8 to 10 March 2017 and in Guatemala City, Guatemala, from 28 August to 1 September 2017, were successful in setting the frequency coordination basis for broadcasting and mobile services.​

Outcomes of the 1st meeting

The First Meeting agreed on:
  • the need to achieve successful coordination agreements with the neighboring administrations;
  • the establishment of the preliminary technical criteria that should be taken into account in the compatibility analysis, based on the previous work of ITU-R Study Groups. These assumptions have been submitted to the relevant ITU-R Working Parties for their approval;
  • the software tools provided by the BR (CADisplay and eTools CA_compat) to run and analyze the results of the compatibility analysis;
  • the need to notify the frequency assignments in operation to the Master International Frequency Register (MIFR), in conformity with Article 11 of ITU Radio Regulations;
  • the need to carry out the planning, coordination and iteration process, held every other week, between meetings;
  • the need to harmonize, to the utmost possible, the use of the UHF band, in particular, the use of the 700 MHz band by the Mobile services;
  • the importance of informing the BR about the intention to allocate the band 470-698 MHz, or portions thereof, to the Mobile service as soon as possible;
  • the gathering of information on the use of the VHF and UHF bands, through a questionnaire prepared by the BR and submitted to the concerned administrations before the second meeting.

Outcomes of the 2nd meeting

The Second Meeting agreed on:
  • the need to update the MIFR with all the assignments in operation (UHF and VHF, analogue and digital);
  • the need to delete form the MIFR all the assignments that are no longer in operation, as well as those not intended to be put in operation within the next three months;
  • the need to delete all the analogue assignments from the MIFR for the administrations that have already completed their analogue switch-off;
  • stopping the use of flexible channels one month prior to the 3rd meeting.

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