6th MENA Spectrum Management Conference 2022
2022-06-30..2022-07-01
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as the organisers put it
The 6th MENA Spectrum Management Conference will take place as a hybrid event in June 2022 in Tunis & Online.
who it's for
spectrum regulators, mobile network operators, satellite operators, telecom equipment vendors, network engineers, radio planning engineers, standards engineers
topics
5G New Radio for non-terrestrial networks; GEO Ku-band NR-NTN demo; LEO Ka-band trials; S/L-band direct-to-handset tests; private 5G industrial deployments; RF monitoring and continuous spectrum mapping; 3GPP Release-17 and Release-18 work; sub-THz and 60 GHz spectrum studies; automated frequency coordination and lightly licensed regimes; Wi-Fi 6E and 6 GHz coexistence; metaverse low-latency connectivity requirements
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| 5G New Radio for Non-Terrestrial Systems in FR1 and FR2 spectrum | Frank Zeppenfeldt | 44m |
A European project group of more than 100 engineers is building and testing 5G New Radio for non‑terrestrial networks: they complete the world's first… | ||
| 5G use cases | Sam D'Arcy | 28m |
Concrete deployments across ports, power grids, factories and mines show 5G doing work: a Shenzhen Ma'wan port (983,000 m²) moves ~3 million 20‑ft… | ||
| Using big data from RF monitoring... | philip arbel | 22m |
LS Telcom demonstrates a pipeline that turns massive RF recordings into citywide continuous coverage maps: portable Alice Observer units record 80 MHz–6 GHz… | ||
| Advancing 5G technology towards 6G | John Smee | 18m |
Qualcomm reports over 210 operators with commercial 5G, ~275 more investing, and expects ~750 million 5G smartphones to ship in 2022 and >1 billion connections… | ||
| Day 1 - Session 1, Session 2 & Session 3 | Ali Al-Ghamdi, Sultan A. Alharthi, Iain Danby, Branimir Stefanovic | 04h 34m |
Hybrid preparations ramp up for WRC‑23: study groups finish CPM text drafts on 19 agenda items while virtual working parties boost participation (e.g. WP5D… | ||
| Day 1 - Thinking Point, Session 4i, Session 4ii & Session 4iii | Dan Craft | 04h 21m |
Meta says AR/VR needs single‑digit ms latency and lots of channels (160/320 MHz) so Wi‑Fi 6E and 5G must evolve; industry expects ~350 million Wi‑Fi 6E devices… | ||
| Day 2 - Session 5, Session 6 & Session 7 | Tariq Al Awadhi | 03h 54m |
Regulators announce concrete moves: Saudi CITC earmarks 13 GHz for a lightly licensed regime (4 GHz for industrial 5G, 6 GHz for controlled high‑power Wi‑Fi)… | ||
| Thinking Point: The Metaverse and the evolving connectivity requirements | Bruno Cendon Martin | 14m |
Overview of specific claims, products and gaps: Meta Reality Labs lists Portal, Ray‑Ban Stories and Oculus Quest 2 as current platforms and says metaverse UX… | ||
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