International spectrum meeting to take place in Australia

An international spectrum meeting will be held in Australia, with a focus on enabling the use of future communications technologies across the Asia–Pacific region.

The Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Preparatory Group will be held from 12–16 March in Perth.

The APT aims to build regional positions on radiocommunications spectrum allocations to take forward to global forums, particularly the International Telecommunication Union World Radiocommunication Conference in 2019 (WRC-19).

This is the third of five regional summits to be held in the lead-up to the conference.

“The Australian Government is proud to be hosting the third meeting of the APT,” said Mike Mrdak AO, secretary, Department of Communications and the Arts.

“We are honoured that Australia has again been trusted with such an important event in the Asia–Pacific radiocommunications calendar.”

“This event will bring the region together to build consensus positions which carry much more influence in these global forums than a single country proposal,” added Australian Communications and Media Authority Chair Nerida O’Loughlin.

The meeting, co-hosted by the Department of Communications and the Arts and the ACMA, is expected to attract more than 350 radiocommunication leaders from over 25 Asia–Pacific countries.

Representatives from the ITU and other regional groups — including the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations and the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission — will attend the five-day meeting.

The event will also see a sizeable Australian delegation, including representatives from the Department of Defence, CSIRO, Airservices Australia, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Bureau of Meteorology and industry technical experts.

Australia successfully hosted a similar preparatory meeting in 2014 in advance of the 2015 WRC.

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