The future of communications technologies across the Asia-Pacific region will be under the microscope when the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Preparatory Group will hold an international spectrum meeting in Perth in March.
The meeting, to be held from 12 to 16 March, aims to build regional positions on radiocommunications spectrum allocations to take forward to global forums—in particular the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19).
The Perth meeting will be the third of five regional summits in the lead-up to the International Telecommunication Union World Radiocommunication Conference in 2019.
“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.
{loadposition peter}“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,’ said Australian Communications and Media Authority Chair, Nerida O’Loughlin.
The meeting, co-hosted by the Department of Communications and the Arts and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (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 Australian delegation attending the event includes 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.