to EU Digital Infrastructure Consultation

Executive Summary

GSA 4G-5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Forum represents a broad end-to-end 3GPP ecosystem with over 50 companies across infrastructure, software, chipset, module and customer premise equipment (CPE) industry segments. The GSA 4G- 5G FWA forum welcomes the opportunity to participate in EC’s consultation related to the publication of its “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?” white paper. We are pleased to see that 5G fixed wireless access is considered as an additional technology to close the digital divide in Europe as mentioned in the section “Pillar II: Completing the Digital Single Market” . Indeed, 5G FWA brings a fast, economic attractive and future proof alternative to deploy broadband services, especially for rural and less densely populated areas where there is a connectivity gap and fiber deployment costs are high. Moreover, 5G FWA deployments bring more choice for consumers, creating a competitive and affordable broadband market.

In its Gigabit Society Communication the Commission set a connectivity target of 100 Mbps download speeds, upgradable to 1 Gbps, for all European households. This 2025 target has been reconfirmed in the Commission’s recent Digital Compass Communication. Yet, millions of European households lack access to fast and reliable broadband. Bridging this connectivity gap will require a range of different technologies including 5G FWA, particularly in harder to reach rural areas. Moreover, 5G FWA can play a key role to accelerate copper switch-off to achieve the Digital Decade target for Gigabit connectivity. In addition of slow broadband speeds, copper-based broadband networks have high energy consumption. As an example, Telenor Norway has been one of first incumbent operators in Europe to migrate its copper customer base as it was unable to meet the need for speed, stability and capacity for broadband services. Telenor addressed the challenge to decommissioning 18% of broadband connections by 2022 with a mix of fibre and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). Between 2020 and 2022, Telenor added 51,000 FWA and 60,000 fibre broadband connections. 2023 marked the first year in over a century without any Telenor Norway subscribers on the legacy copper network. By December 2023, the decommissioning activities by Telenor Norway had already secured electricity savings of 22GWh and emissions of 8 500 tonnes of CO2 annually were avoided.

In addition of providing fixed broadband, investments in ultrafast mobile networks for 5G FWA also benefit other use cases such as mobile broadband, IoT for smart agriculture, industry 4.0, which are key pillars of EU Digitalization agenda.

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GSA FWA Forum Contribution

As of End of June 2024, there were 55 GSA 4G-5G FWA Forum members covering the majority of the infrastructure, chipset, module and CPE value chain for FWA. One of the main deliverables has been a 4G-5G FWA Ecosystem Catalogue, which is now in its 11th iteration and promotes a wide range of FWA devices, chipsets and modules. The Forum delivers an annual CPE Survey report to help the industry better estimate the real market size of the 4G-5G FWA market.

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GSA 4G-5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) Forum represents a broad end-to-end 3GPP ecosystem with over 40 companies across infrastructure, chipset, module and customer premise equipment (CPE) industry segments. The GSA FWA forum welcomes the European Commission´s (EC) proposed update to the EU´s Broadband State Aid Guidelines (BBGL) including FWA as an additional technology to close the digital divide in Europe. FWA offers a fast, economically attractive and future proof alternative to deploying broadband services, in particular for rural and less densely populated areas where there is a connectivity gap and fiber deployment costs are high.

In its Gigabit Society Communication the EC set a connectivity target of 100 Mbps download speeds, upgradable to 1 Gbps, for all European households. This 2025 target has been reconfirmed in the recent Digital Compass Communication. Yet, millions of European households lack access to fast and reliable broadband, which has been emphasized in the past two years of Covid-19 pandemic. Bridging this connectivity gap in time to meet the 2025 target will require a range of different technologies including 5G FWA, particularly in harder to reach rural areas. The BBGL should encourage the deployment of state aid in support of the EU target of 100 Mbps for all households by 2025, as a key interim step to its full 2030 ambition, and to ensure all EU households and businesses have access to the ultrafast broadband connectivity in as short a timeframe as possible.

4G-5G FWA Forum’s Contribution to EU State Aid Guidelines Consultation

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“Draft Report from CEPT to the European Commission in response to the Mandate on spectrum for the future railway mobile communications system – Report A: Spectrum needs and feasibility (tasks 1 to 4)”

These comments were delivered to ECC on 23rd April 2020.

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“Compatibility between RMR and MFCN in the 900 MHz range, the 1900-1920 MHz band and the 2290-2300 MHz band”

This submission was provided to the ECC on 23rd April 2020.

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Key comments to the EC proposal of Implementing Regulation for SAWAPs

Joint response by GSMA, ETNO, Small Cell Forum, Digital Europe and GSA

1 April 2020

Our organizations welcome the European Commission proposal to give effect to the SAWAP (Small Area Wireless Access Points) provisions of the EECC to allow harmonized light deployment regimes leveraging simple criteria such as volume, emission power and compliance of SAWAP installation with the applicable European Standards (EN50401 and EN62232). We welcome Recital 16 that allows Member States to adopt less restrictive approaches, noting that many Member States already permit larger volumes or higher powers than those defined in the proposed SAWAP regulation or provide for no restrictions at all indoor as opposed to the proposed SAWAP regulation.

Our objective is that the criteria defined in this Implementing Regulation (IR) support the fast deployment of SAWAPs to meet the criteria of broadband objectives of the European Commission. Therefore, we propose changes to strengthen the effectiveness of the proposed measures.

1. The current SAWAPs deployed outdoor or indoor in larger areas such as museums, stadiums, convention centres, airports, metro-transport stations, railway stations, or shopping centres, have an emission power of 10 W or more as defined in 3GPP specifications and as such belong to classes E100 or sometimes E+. Therefore, the criteria for applicability of the IR should be 10 W emission power so that it applies to a wide range of installations.

2. Installation classes E10 and below are generally dedicated to indoor applications and deployed very close to where people work and live. Therefore, limiting the applicability of the draft IR to class E10, corresponding to emission power 0.5 W, which is similar to a mobile phone, means that it will have very limited potential benefit for stakeholders in real world deployments.

3. The proposed volume of 20 litres applies to limited functionality SAWAP that can serve a single mobile radio access technology in a single sector, potentially across multiple bands, excluding the auxiliary equipment (for example, the power supply) that is not part of the 20 litres.

4. A minimum volume of 50 litres is required to support multi-technology or multi-operator SAWAP. Unless this is permitted, we will see a negative business impact on small cells deployment (and future synergetic usage of co-located technologies like cellular vehicle-to-everything) and an overall risk of Europe falling behind other regions.

5. The proposed IR will have to be updated shortly after the update of EN62232 in order to incorporate the simple deployment criteria for active antenna systems (AAS) for example those using millimetre waves. We recommend to review the provisions of the IR six months after publication of the updated EN62232.

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This study provides an analysis of the potential interference from earth stations in motion (ESIM) operating in the frequency range 28.35-28.6 GHz into Mobile Service (MS) stations operating in adjacent frequency bands. Three types of ESIM are considered: air, sea, and land based. For the air case, two deployment scenarios are considered: an aircraft airborne (at 10, 5, or 1 km altitude) and the aircraft parked at the gate. Similarly for the sea case, the ship is either at sea (10, 5, or 1 km from the shore) or docked at the pier. Two deployment scenarios are also considered for the land case: ESIM on a road outside the dense urban area (called “Inter-city”) at 1 km and 50 m distances, and an ESIM within the dense urban area (called “Intra-city”) at a distance of 20 m.

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In the matter of:

Amendment of Parts 2 and 25 of the Commission’s Rules to Facilitate the Use of Earth Stations in Motion Communicating with Geostationary Orbit Space Stations in Frequency Bands Allocated to the Fixed Satellite Service.

Delivered 31st July 2017

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