APT nominates IAFI President to lead Wi-Fi 6 studies

ITU APT Foundation of India (IAFI) participated in the 30th Meeting of the APT Wireless Group (AWG 30)which was organised by the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity from the 5th to the 9th September 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand, with over 300 participants and continued various studies relating to wireless technologies and spectrum. AWG covers various aspects of emerging wireless systems to meet the upcoming digital convergence era in the Asia-Pacific region. The meeting considered a total of 80 input contributions from 15 Asian administrations and 10 Industry members.

ITU APT Foundation of India (IAFI) had submitted 4 contributions to the AWG-30 meeting relating to the frequency arrangements for the 600 MHz band for 5G, Report on emerging critical applications & use cases of IMT for industrial, societal and enterprise users & establishing a task group radio for radio local area networks also referred to as RLANS.

The AWG-30 Meeting also agreed to make the IAFI proposed 600 MHz band, which provides an additional 5+5 MHz as compared to the US 600 plan, as the main and only APT600 Band plan.

The meeting also agreed start a study of new spectrum needs of 6G between 7 GHz and 24 GHz, in preparations for WRC-23 discussions on the agenda of the next WRC-23.

The AWG 30 also had detailed discussions on WiFi studies and the meeting decided to set up a new task group to study WI-FI in 6 GHz. Bharat Bhatia, President, IAFI was nominated as the chairman of this new Task Group. Bhatia was the Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) chairman before this new appointment.

WAS/RLAN task group is proposed to share information on status of spectrum usage, technical conditions, and national regulatory experiences in Asia-Pacific region for current and emerging WAS/RLAN technologies, and to perform studies of technical and operational scenarios (including system description, deployment, service requirements, and regulatory provisions etc.) of current and emerging WAS/RLAN technologies.

CT Bureau