Avis sur un projet de décision de l'Arcep fixant les conditions d'utilisation des fréquences radioélectriques pour des systèmes de Terre permettant de fournir des services de communications électroniques dans la bande de fréquences 790-862 MHz

Initialement publié le 10 March 2015 on the website : www.csa.fr

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Seized by the French Electronic Communications and Posts Regulatory Authority (ARCEP) on July 25, 2014, of a draft decision amending Decision No. 2011-0599 laying down the conditions of use of radio frequencies for terrestrial schemes enabling the provision of electronic communications services in the 790 - 862 MHz frequency band in mainland France, the French Superior Audiovisual Council, meeting in plenary session on September1, 2014, issues the following opinion.

This draft decision aims to extend, in the overseas territories in which ARCEP has jurisdiction (Reunion, Mayotte, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon), the technical conditions for using the 800 MHz band implemented in mainland France. In this respect, the Board welcomes the fact that the schemes for protecting radio broadcasting in mainland France, set out in Article 3 of ARCEP Decision no. 2011-0599, have been adopted in full overseas France. However, it seems essential that a "Guide to compiling a COMSIS file for an 800 MHz LTE site" should also be implemented in overseas France, as is the case in mainland France.

This document, which defines the best practices to be adopted by operators, strengthens ARCEP's scheme, notably by including two additional measures that were deemed essential by the Conseil in its opinion no. 2011-04 of March 15, 2011 on ARCEP's draft decision, subsequently adopted under number 2011-0599: on the one hand, the prior information of households located in areas where a risk of interference is suspected, and, on the other, the collection of complaints from viewers who suffer interference.

The Conseil draws attention to the fact that a scheme comparable in every respect to that implemented in mainland France is necessary overseas France in order to offer the same guarantees of protection for radio broadcasting in these territories.

This notice will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.

Paris, October1, 2014.
For the French Superior Audiovisual Council
The Chairman,
O. Schrameck