June 21, 2023 Technical Requirements for Narrowband LTE-Advanced as Part of Technical Requirements for New-generation Mobile Communications Systems Partial report from the Information and Communications Council

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) received today a partial report from the Information and Communications Council (chaired by ENDO Nobuhiro, Executive Advisor of NEC Corporation) in response to MIC’s Inquiry No. 2038, dated October 12, 2016, on technical requirements for narrowband LTE-Advanced as part of technical requirements for new-generation mobile communications systems.

1. Background

In order to respond to the growing demand for mobile phone frequencies, the Information and Communications Council has been studying the conditions for sharing the 700 MHz band with other radio systems and the technical requirements for 3 MHz wide LTE systems since November 2022. Today, MIC received a partial report from the Council on technical Requirements for Narrowband LTE-Advanced.

2. Partial report

The partial report is shown in Attachment 1 in PDF. The summarized material of the New-generation Mobile Communications System Subcommittee’s report is shown in Attachment 2 in PDF.

3. Future plans

MIC will promptly proceed with the relevant institutional developments based on this partial report.

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• Solicitation for Opinions on Draft Report from New-generation Mobile Communications System Subcommittee―Technical requirements for narrowband LTE-advanced as part of technical requirements for new-generation mobile communications systems (Monday, May 1, 2023)
• Results of Solicitation for Opinions on Draft Report from New-generation Mobile Communications System Subcommittee―Technical requirements for narrowband LTE-Advanced as part of technical requirements for new-generation mobile communications systems (Tuesday, June 20, 2023)

*The published material is in Japanese only.