Government, Industry

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Government, Industry RD
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Government/Industry Roles

• Traditionally Japanese Government has been
  proactive in identifying and strengthening
  specific growth industries
• Mobile in Japan in the 1990s
• PDC developed in isolation an export failure
• 3G (WCDMA) an IPR and global standards success,
  and the first commercial rollout (FOMA)
• i-Mode 75 of all phone users have Internet
  access, (and use it, because it provides services
  they want)
• Changing relationships with the introduction of a
  competitive marketplace
• 3 operators NTT DoCoMo, J-Phone, KDDI

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e-Japan

• Government Initiative
• IT Strategy HQ established July 2000
• IT Strategy Conference 20 industry experts
• IT Basic Strategy established November 2000
• IT Basic Law January 2001
• e-Japan Strategy established January 2001
• The most advanced high speed wireless
  Internet-connection will be achieved in which the
  wireless access network will be efficiently
  connected with the Internet (IPv6)
• The Role of Mobile within e-Japan
• New Generation Mobile (industry) Committee
  established to produce report for the
  Telecommunications Council

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Report to the Telecoms Council June 2001 - Exec
Summary

• Mobile IT
• requires global support
• a mountain of treasures of IPR
• early realisation is a key to IT industry
• a driving force behind new service business
• An action plan for realisation of the mobile IT
  environment
• We strongly expect that comprehensive promotion
  of the mobile IT is planned quickly and strongly
  based on this report
• mITF Mobile IT Forum first action step

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Mobile IT Forum - mITF

• mITF http//www.mitf.org
• Created June 2001
• 120 companies, 10 individuals (academics), 1
  special (ARIB)
• ARIB provide the secretariat for mITF
• Structure

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Scope of the 4G subcommittee
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Government - MPHPT

• Created April 2001
• Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs,
  Posts Telecommunications
• Sometimes known as MGA (Ministry of General
  Affairs) or Soumosho
• (The old MPT was subsumed into the new MPHPT)
• http//www.soumu.go.jp
• Responsibilities in regard to Future Mobile
• Ensuring the Foundation of RD
• Spectrum management Future Requirements
• Co-ordinating Japanese Vision and Input to ITU-R

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RD Foundation (1)

• The Key Players
• NTT DoCoMo major RD capability
• Most 3G research staff moved to FOMA
• Remainder active on 4G
• Other industry players beginning 4G research
• Many have begun in last year, relatively small
  numbers
• Focus on technologies identified in TC report and
  described earlier
• Universities
• 480 in Japan, only just begun ranking exercise
• Key mobile players active as individuals in mITF
• CRL (Central Research Laboratories)
• Funded by MPHPT, now an independent
  administrative institution and perhaps playing a
  diminishing role ?
• Yokosuka Research Park a national focus

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RD Foundation (2)

• Yokosuka Research Park
• Conceived in 1987, opened in 1997
• 1bn invested in the YRP site facilities to
  date
• 50 of which by NTT DoCoMo
• National and local government support and
  investment
• Actively promoted, both nationally and
  internationally
• Rapidly established itself as the national centre
  for mobile communications research
• Most mobile RD consolidated at YRP - 6000 staff
• Now seeking to attract companies in
• Broadcasting
• Internet
• in order to develop the service and business
  synergies with mobile communications

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RD Foundation (3)

• RD Requirements for Future Mobile Evolution
• mITF focussing on the giant step, whilst
  companies themselves fund earlier 3G evolution
• Funding expected from both industry government,
  but no assessments of cost yet undertaken
• NB Korean MIC 100m investment announcement Feb
  2002
• Government funding is expected for some areas of
  research examples given were - SDR, propagation
• Companies need to understand the importance in
  participation in such activities
• Future Interaction
• Government and industry appeared keen to build on
  May 2001 MoU with UK Government

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Spectrum Management (1)

• Spectrum Allocation Trading
• Spectrum viewed as a public good
• Philosophical objection to selling spectrum
• Rather leasing, and returned if not used
• Auctions being considered (in out of favour)
• Regulation of Software Radio
• Actively engaged on SDR
• (SDR Forum are working hard on MPHPT)
• Study committee to report March 2003
• Followed by public consultation
• (These dates are later than those believed by
  SDRF)

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Spectrum Management (2)

• Service Convergence
• Comms-Broadcast boundaries blurring
• Radio Law covers Cellular Operators
• Broadcast Law covers Broadcasters
• New Law covers satellite based broadcasters and
  comms operators
• Nothing yet for terrestrial overlap situations
• Traditional ITU categories still relevant for
  interference analyses

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Standards - ITU-R Vision

• ITU-R WP8F
• International body responsible for future mobile
  radio systems
• Led the IMT-2000 activity (3G), begun in 1987
• Now looking at Systems beyond 3G
• Presently developing its Vision document
• The Japanese Influence
• Very actively inputting over the past year or
  more
• Originally a limited view of 4G is a new air
  interface, 100 Mb/s
• Interworking with WLANs and other networks is now
  acknowledged as important
• In this public forum, the date of 2010 for the
  100 Mb/s air interface was quoted as being a
  working assumption for the introduction of
  service for the purposes of RD

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Standards - ITU-R Vision

• Spectrum Availability
• Japanese TC report anticipates a need for
• 1.2-1.7 GHz
• in the region 3-5 GHz
• with channels of 50-100 MHz bandwidth
• Japanese desire to put on the WRC2006 agenda
• Current Issues
• Some antagonism to the Japanese position
• MPHPT noted that 3G took 10 years to deployment
  from spectrum allocation at WRC 92, but think a
  quicker timescale could be achieved locally in
  Japan

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Standards - Networks

• Standards
• The Japanese vision is for a convergence of
  Internet and mobile core infrastructure
• If mobile / Internet convergence is to happen it
  must involve the IETF, but
• How to influence IETF ?
• It doesnt operate in the traditional telecom
  manner
• This issue, essential if true mobile/Internet
  core convergence to happen, is recognised to a
  limited degree

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Concluding Remarks
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Final Remarks

• Assessment
• There exists a shared belief in the importance of
  mobile communications to future national wealth
• Learnt from the past
• Competition with wireline
• (Competition with Korea ?)
• Government and industry are beginning to invest
  in the future of the industry
• Still at an early stage
• No obvious technological lead yet exists
• Currently more goals than technology
• Many standards issues unclear eg IETF
• International collaboration will be needed

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Final Remarks

• Further Resources
• The Mission Team Report
• YRP Telecom Summit
• 4th YRP Symposium on Cooperation between
  Industry, Academia and Government in Mobile
  Communications
• 10-11th July 2002 at YRP
• EC Training Grants available www.etp.org
• Funding available to develop staff who may have
  to work in or deal with Japan
• 120,000 Euros to fund 12 months of language
  training and basic living allowance in Japan to
  learn the language and culture, followed by 6
  month local placement of an employee in a
  selected organisation