December 18, 2020 Results of Appeal for Opinions on Draft Notice and Official Directive for Partial Revision of Notice No. 23 of 2019 (Matters that determine the technical conditions of radio stations that perform mobile radio communication using single-carrier frequency-division multiple-access or orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access systems)

Following the deliberation results of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), some amendments to the Radio Regulations as stipulated in the ITU Charter and Convention will come into effect. In response to this, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) drafted a notice and official directive to revise a notice based on the Regulations for Enforcement of the Radio Act. Accordingly, MIC made an appeal for opinions on the drafted revisions from Tuesday, November 3 through Tuesday, December 8, 2020. As a result, MIC received one opinion and has decided to open the opinion to the public, along with MIC’s view on the opinion.
Considering the opinion submitted, MIC will promptly make institutional development to revise the notice, etc.

1. Background

The 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was held in Egypt (Sharm el-Sheikh) from Monday, October 28 through Friday, November 22, 2019. Following the deliberation results of WRC-19, some amendments to the Radio Regulations as stipulated in the ITU Charter and Convention will come into effect on January 1, 2020.
In response to the above, MIC has drafted a notice, etc. to revise MIC’s Notice No. 23 of 2019 (Matters that determine the technical conditions of radio stations that perform mobile radio communication using single-carrier frequency-division multiple-access or orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access systems). The subject notice, etc. will make the technical standards applied to mobile communication systems correspond to the revised Regulations for Enforcement of the Radio Act. Accordingly, MIC made an appeal for opinions from Tuesday, November 3 through Tuesday, December 8, 2020, on the subject matter.

2. Results of appeal for opinions

The published material is in Japanese only.

3. Future plans

With consideration of the appeal for the opinions, MIC will promptly revise the notice, etc.