UNION INTERNATIONALE DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS
INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
UNIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE TELECOMUNICACIONES

 


Inaugural Meeting
CCIR Study Group 12
14 January 1991


Remarks by Pekka Tarjanne
Secretary-General
International Telecommunication Union


Mr. Chairman,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

	Welcome to Geneva and to this meeting which is a significant event, at  the  
same time historical and experimental.

	It is the first meeting of an entirely new CCIR Study Group - something that 
doesn't happen very often.  Perhaps more important, however, is the experimental 
nature of this group.  This Study Group was set up in Düsseldorf last year  as a 
means of resolving increasingly complex, urgent,  inter-service sharing problems.  
There aren't many Study Groups that can claim that everything they do is urgent!  

	You can!
	
	We are all aware that the demand for radio spectrum for mobile and new 
applications continues to increase significantly.  The estimated yearly growth 
for personal mobile radio and paging is about 20-25 percent, while cellular 
continues to grow at a remarkable 80 percent.  With continuing liberalization and 
promotion of competitive alternatives around the world, this growth seems likely 
to increase.  It is not surprising that your three major task areas focus in 
large measure on finding ways to accommodate growing spectrum needs of various 
kinds of mobile services and applications.

	This entire subject has become increasingly complex because of the dramatically 
increased use of digital transmission, signal processing, and dynamic spectrum 
management techniques that both blur the distinctions between the old notions of 
radio services, and afford remarkable new opportunities to a more intensive use 
of the spectrum.

	The work of Study Group 12 is important in the near-term by potentially 
developing Recommendations that can be adopted under accelerated procedures.  In 
the long-term, if the Study Group proves successful in its mission, the way is 
opened to consider whether a much broader array of spectrum management issues 
normally dealt with at Administrative Radio Conferences might now be handled by 
more dynamic Consultative Committee mechanisms.  The new Voluntary Group of 
Experts on simplifying radio regulation, starting its work here in Geneva next 
week, the next WARC, to be held in Malaga Torremolinos, Spain, next year (1992), 
not to mention the next Plenipotentiary Conference, will have more than a passing 
interest in your work.

	The global telecommunications family is watching your work with keen interest.

	I wish you all success.


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