Verifying 3G License Requirements - Some Preliminary Swedish Results

Author

Beckman, Claes ; Belkow, Elena ; Eklund, Lars ; Landmark, Urban ; Wirdemark, Per

Author_Institution

Center for RF-Meas. Technol., Univ. of Gavle, Gavle

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In the year 2000, the Swedish Telecom regulator "Post&Telestyrelsen" (PTS) granted in a "beauty contest" four licenses for operation of 3G mobile networks. Through this process, the licensees committed themselves to cover 8,860,000 inhabitants of the Swedish population. In order to verify the coverage and confirm compliance with the license requirements, PTS, developed a test procedure in close collaboration with the licensees. The present paper gives an overview of the considerations behind the design of the test method and presents some preliminary results. Today all Swedish 3G operators comply with the licence requirement and it is concluded that a method for verifying the requirement accepted by the licensees is an important tool for successful licensing of spectrum and fulfilment of licensing obligations.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; legislation; 3G mobile network; Swedish 3G operator; license requirement; licensing obligation; Area measurement; Base stations; Downlink; Licenses; Manufacturing; Particle measurements; Power measurement; Regulators; Telecommunications; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2008. VTC 2008-Fall. IEEE 68th

Conference_Location

Calgary, BC

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1721-6

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2008.328

Filename

4657160