November 15, 2021 Announcement of Frequency Reorganization Action Plan (FY2021 Version)

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has completed the Frequency Reorganization Action Plan (the fiscal 2021 version) to implement the reorganization of frequencies smoothly and steadily.
Before completing this, MIC made an appeal for opinions from Tuesday, September 14 through Wednesday, October 13, 2021, on a draft of the Frequency Reorganization Action Plan. As a result, MIC received 107 opinions. Accordingly, MIC has decided to announce these opinions along with MIC’s views on the opinions.

1. Background and purpose

MIC made the Frequency Reorganization Action Plan in fiscal 2004 for the first time. Since then, MIC has been publishing a revised version annually to show MIC’s efforts to follow up on the smooth and steady reorganization of specific frequencies based on the evaluation results of surveys on the state of radio wave use.
With consideration of the results of the appeal for opinions on the draft of the Frequency Reorganization Action Plan (the fiscal 2021 version), MIC has reviewed and completed the Frequency Reorganization Action Plan.

2. Formulation of Frequency Reorganization Action Plan

• MIC has released the Frequency Reorganization Action Plan (fiscal 2021 version)

3. Results of appeal for opinions

• Submitted opinions and MIC’s views on the opinions

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4. Future plans

MIC will steadily implement specific measures based on the Frequency Reorganization Action Plan (fiscal 2021 version).
MIC will review the Frequency Reorganization Action Plan every year based on the evaluation results of an annual survey on radio spectrum usage.