Regulatory Challenges in Assignment of Scarce Resources:

International aspects and how these are implemented at regional and national levels

Legal Frameworks for ICTs Building Capacity and Implementing Regulation

St. Julian’s Malta 05 March 2013

Malcolm Johnson, DirectorTelecommunication Standardization Bureau

International Telecommunication Union

Radio spectrum

Digital Dividend More than a national decision !

The transition from analogue to digital television allows a higher number of services to be provided using much less spectrum. The spectrum “released” by this transition is referred to as the digital dividend

To take the decision on Digital Dividend at the national level, it is important to take measures at the international level:

In order to avoid interference in border areas, agree, at least regionally, on a common allocation to the mobile service as part of the digital dividend

Coordinate frequencies and technical characteristics of national television assignments in the band allocated to broadcasting, to enable transition to digital broadcasting and analog switch-off, hence release of digital dividend spectrum for both mobile and broadcasting. This involves renegotiating the GE-06 Agreement, for those countries which are parties to this agreement.

Harmonize the timing of transition from analogue to digital Relocate incumbent services other than broadcasting to other frequency bands.

Good news from WRC-12

800 MHz: sharing problems resolved

700 MHz: allocation to mobile service globally available from 2015

Additional spectrum: to be considered by WRC-15

Mobile broadband/IMT spectrum

Impact of WRC-12 decisions

• WRC-12 opens the way for worldwide harmonization of both the• 700 MHz band• 800 MHz band• 900 MHz band

• The three bands are now allocated and identified for IMT in all three Regions.

• This offers a unique opportunity to achieve worldwide harmonization of premium spectrum for mobile broadband, whilst resolving the legacy problems arising from long standing differences in channeling arrangements between regions

IP Addresses

IP Address

Internet Number Resource Report

Status of IPv4 Address

Status of whole IPv4 Address Space

IANA’s free IPv4 address pool exhausted at Feb 2011

Available IPv4 /8s in each RIR as of 31 Jan 2013

APNIC reached its last /8 of free IPv4 at Apr 2011

RIPE-NCC reached its last /8 at Sept 2012

Internet Number Resource Report

Status of IPv6 Address

IPv6 Address Space

IANA has started IPv6 allocation from Jan 1999

5 /12s = 0.1% of total IPv6 space

RIR IPv6 Allocations (Jan 1999- Dec 2012, in terms of /32s)

10593 /32s = ~0.2% of the RIR IPv6 space (5 /12s)

Internet Number Resource Report

IPv6 Deployment Statistics

Source: www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/ (27 Feb 2013)

1st Slovenia - 38% of its websites tested is accessible in IPv6

5th U.S – 20% (same as March 2012)

Source: US NIST IPv6 and DNSSEC Statistics (27 Feb 2013)

IPv6 to IPv4 ratio of US industry : 10% for DNS, 3% for email and 2% web services

Internet Number Resource Report

Numbering

Preventing misuse/hijacking of numbering resources According to GSMA, numbering resource misuse is a

key factor in fraud perpetrated against mobile networks and their customers

It is used for fraudulent and artificial inflation of traffic Combating fraud

Transmission of calling party identification/origin identification

Both addressed in 2012 ITRs

New ITRs: Misuse and Fraud

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