On December 3, 2013, the High level meeting of the RCC participants on prospective and effective use of radio frequency bands 694-790 MHz took place in Baku (Azerbaijan Republic).

BakuTel-2013 the High level meeting of the RCC participants on prospective and effective use of radio frequency bands 694-790 MHz was held. The High level meeting was held in the format of Round Table.

The delegations of the RCC full members – Communications Administrations (CAs) of Azerbaijan Republic, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russian Federation, Republic of Tajikistan, Ukraine and RCC observers – CAs of the Republic of Latvia, Republic of Slovenia, as well as guests from International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Ministry of communications and information technologies of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Communication Regulation Authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Finnish Communication Regulation Authority, “Nokia Solutions and Networks”, “Huawei”, “LM Ericsson”  and the «Information and Telecommunications Technologies» Branch of RAEN (Member of ETSI from Russia) took part at the session.

High level meeting were discussed issues on prospective and effective use of radio frequency bands 694-790 MHz at the RCC participants countries and neighboring countries. Participant of the Round Table shared information practical experience and ongoing researches in this band within the framework of the RCC, ITU, ETSI and other organizations, exchanged plans on organizations of production of broadband wireless access equipment of radio frequency bands 694-790 MHz. 

On the results of the Round Table participants adopted the Final document, which noted that the issue on prospective and effective use of radio frequency bands 694-790 MHz is important and urgent at this stage and discussion is useful for formation the position of administrations due to further development of various technologies in radio frequency 694-790 MHz. It was also noted, that the RCC Communications Administrations appropriate to continue researches on the current and prospective use of radio frequency bands 694-790 MHz in order to prepare the consolidated position of the RCC CAs for WRC- 15 on this band.

Representative of the «Information and Telecommunications Technologies» Branch of RAEN Dr. Valery Tikhvinskiy (Chairman of ITT RAEN) took part in the work of the High level meeting of the RCC participants on prospective and effective use of radio frequency bands 694-790 MHz with a report «Standardization of issues on use of spectrum in the range of 700 MHz in the documents of ETSI and 3GPP». It can be found on the Regional Commonwealth in the field of communications web-site (www.rcc.org.ru).