March 13, 2020 Result of Survey on New Wireless Usage on 900-MHz Band and Future Plans

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) assumes that the digital MCA system will be gradually migrated to an advanced MCA system. To contribute to the study on the technical conditions of the new wireless system to be introduced after the migration of the digital MCA system, MIC conducted a survey on new wireless usage in the target frequency bands (in ranges of 845 to 860 MHz and 928 to 940 MHz) from Friday, December 6, 2019, to Wednesday, January 15, 2020. Accordingly, MIC has decided to open the result of the survey to the public, along with MIC’s future plans.

1. Background

MIC officially announced an action plan for spectrum reallocation (revised version of fiscal 2019) on September 9, 2019. This plan states that MIC will start studying the migration time of the digital MCA system to the advanced MCA system by the end of fiscal 2019, along with the technical conditions of the new wireless system after the migration to the digital MCA system by the end of fiscal 2019.
With consideration of the above, MIC conducted a survey on new wireless usage in the target frequency bands (in ranges of 845 to 860 MHz and 928 to 940 MHz) to contribute to a study to be conducted in fiscal 2020.

2. Result of survey

1. Number of proposals for new wireless usage

Eight

2. Direction of the investigation and study scheduled to be implemented in fiscal 2020

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications summarized the direction of the study and review to be implemented in fiscal 2020, with consideration of the opinions of external experts.

3. Future plans

With consideration of the results of this survey, MIC will sequentially proceed with a procurement procedure for the survey and study scheduled to be implemented in fiscal 2020.
However, responding to this survey does not mean that new wireless usage in the target frequency band is permitted.