RADIOCOMMUNICATION  BUREAU
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Circular-letter
CR/1
                                    31 March 1993


        TO ADMINISTRATIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE ITU




Subject:Consultation on continued need for certain 
	footnotes in Article 8 of the Radio 
	Regulations

Reference:	IFRB Circular-Letter 
	No. 914 dated 5 October 1992


Dear Sir,

	I refer to the above circular-letter in which 
administrations were requested to review the 
footnotes to the Table of Frequency Allocations 
where their country name appears with a view to 
identifying those which are no longer required to be 
retained. 

2.	As of 10 March 1993, 44 Administrations (32%) 
have replied to the consultation. A general analysis 
of the replies indicates that:

15	administrations still need all or almost 
	all footnotes allocations;

15 	administrations still need most of their 
	footnote allocations but could envisage 
	removing their name from a number of 
	footnotes; 

8 	administrations are prepared to remove 
	their country names from about half of 
	their present footnote allocations; and

6 	administrations are prepared to consider 
	it no longer essential to maintain their 
	country names in most or all of the 
	footnotes concerned.

	At this stage from the replies received so far, 
it can be concluded that twelve footnotes are no 
longer required to be retained. 

3.	The results of the analysis of replies received 
upto 31 January 1993 were presented as a document to 
the Meeting of the Voluntary Group of Experts held 
in Geneva from 15 - 24 February 1993. In accordance 
with the wish expressed by the VGE that these 
results be circulated to Administrations, the text 
of the footnotes annotated by the responses received 
from the Administrations is enclosed as Annex A. In 
this list a frame around a country in any footnote 
signifies that the concerned administration has 
indicated that it is no longer necessary to maintain 
that footnote. Where such consultation has resulted 
in an indication that the whole footnote could be 
removed, this is indicated by a frame around the 
footnote itself. 

4.	A further examination of the Table of Frequency 
Allocations revealed that the following footnotes 
are also to be included in the consultation process. 
These were inadvertently omitted from the first 
list. The footnotes concerned are RR588, RR753D, 
RR754A, RR756, RR759 and RR780 and are attached as 
Annex B.


5.	The Bureau reiterates previous request from the 
Board for your earnest cooperation in the review of 
the above footnotes including those which have now 
been included in Annex B and to continue your 
efforts in identifying the footnotes which are no 
longer required to be maintained in the Radio 
Regulations and inform it of the results. You will 
appreciate that such indications are not binding to 
your Administration and in no way change their 
existing status on their application and will remain 
applicable until amended by a future world radio 
conference based on proposals to that effect by the 
administrations concerned. If your country name does 
not appear in any of the footnotes this circular-
letter is to be considered as information only.

		Yours faithfully,





		Richard C. Kirby
		Director

Annexes

             A N N E X   A
       (to Circular-letter CR/1)


             A N N E X   B
       (to Circular-letter CR/1)




588	Additional allocation: in Finland and 
Yugoslavia, the band 104 - 108 MHz is also 
allocated to the fixed service on a permitted 
basis, until 31 December 1995.  The effective 
radiated power of any station shall not exceed 
25 W.

753D	Alternative allocation:  in Cuba, the band 
2 483.5 - 2 500 MHz is allocated only to the Mob-87 
fixed, mobile and radiolocation services on a 
primary basis.

754A	Additional allocation:  subject to 
agreement obtained under the procedure set forth in 
Mob-87 	Article 14, the band 2 500 - 2 516.5 MHz 
may also be used in India, the Islamic Republic 
of Iran, Papua New Guinea and Thailand for the 
radiodetermination-satellite service (space-to-
Earth) for operation limited to within national 
boundaries.

756	Additional allocation:  in the United 
Kingdom, the band 2 500 - 2 600 MHz is also 
allocated to the radiolocation service on a 
secondary basis.

759	Alternative allocation:  in Bulgaria and the 
USSR, the band 2 500 - 2 690 MHz is allocated to 
the fixed and mobile, except aeronautical mobile, 
services on a primary 	basis.

780	Additional allocation: in Bulgaria, Cuba, 
Mongolia, Poland, the German Democratic WARC-92 
Republic, Romania, Czechoslovakia and the USSR, 
the band 3 300 - 3 400 MHz is also allocated to the 
radionavigation service on a primary basis.