May 21, 2008

Radio Regulatory Council Report and Results of Public Comment Procedure on Draft MIC Ordinances to Partially Amend Regulations for Enforcement of the Radio Law, Rules for Regulating Radio Equipment, Ordinance concerning Technical Regulations Conformity Certification, Etc. of Specified Radio Equipment, and Such

Development of the provisions in conjunction with the abolishment of systems for premises radio stations using the 19 GHzgigahertz band and radio stations for subscriber radio access communication using the 1,900 MHzmegahertz band
For the development of provisions in conjunction with the abolishment of the two systems above, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has developed the draft MIC ordinances to partially amend the Regulations for Enforcement of the Radio Law, the Rules for Regulating Radio Equipment, the Ordinance concerning Technical Regulations Conformity Certification, Etc. of Specified Radio Equipment, and draft partial change of the Frequency Assignment Plan. Today, it received a report from the Radio Regulatory Council (Chair: Prof. HATORI Mitsutoshi, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University), which states that these drafts are appropriate.

In the meantime, MIC invited public comment on these draft MIC ordinances and related draft MIC notices from March 13 until April 14, 2008, and received no comment.

Considering the report and the results of the public comment procedure, MIC will amend the related MIC ordinances, and such.

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