Experience of Sudan with regard to the utilization of UHF Band

Entsar MahmoudEntsar@tpra.gov.sd

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Telecommunication Sector in Sudan

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Telecommunication Progress

1859

Telecom. introduced in

Sudan (1st telegraph link

between Cairo & Sawaken)

1993

Privatization of Telecom.

Sector

Sudan Telecom Co. (SUDATEL) started as an Operator &

Service provider

1994 1997

license issued to a cellular

service provider

(Sudanese Mobile

Telephone Co. (MOBITEL)

1997

First ISP, Sudanese Internet

Service Co. (Sudanet)

1892

First Telephone exchange in

Sudan (Eldaba & Khartoum)

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Telecommunication Progress

2001 2001 2003 2005 2006

National Telecom.

Corporation (NTC)

formed under

Telecom. Act 2001

First Pre-paid service Ashraaf

International (Ashraaf com)

license issued to the second

mobile operator (Areeba)

license issued to the second fixed

operator (Canar)

license issued to the third

mobile operator (Sudani)

TPRA to regulate

Postal services

2010

Legislations

New Communication &

Postal Law

Telecom. Act.

National Telecom

Corporation Bill

National Telecom

Council Bill.

Telecomm. Law.

1974

1994

2000

2001

2018

Operators Market Share

27%

45%

28%

ZainMTN Sudani

Mobile Market Share

34%

64%

Fixed Market Share

CanarThabit

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Current Status

Fully privatized Sector with 4

companies operating: 1 on the

Stock Exchange and 2 Private Companies

owned by international

entities: Zain, MTN

3 delivering mobile services and 2 managing

the main backbone

network for the country and

delivering fixed network services.

4G In Sudan

In first quarter of 2016 Zain Sudan has been awarded LTE License by TPRA, paving the way for the introduction of high speed 4G data services in Sudan. Recently Sudani has launched 4G service and MTN in Sudan also Canar awarded 4G service for Fixed services.

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Operator uplink

Operator downlink

unassigned

791MHz

Operator uplink

Operator downlink

825.030MHz

MHz834.330

835.68MHz

879.33MHz

870.030MHz

844.320MHz

880.680MHz

889.320MHz

unassigned

9.3MHz

8.64MHz

8.64MHz

9.3MHz

EGSMstart from

880MHz

Sub band

ASubbandB

Sub band

A

Sub band B

The historical assigned of 800 MHz band

CDMA CDMA

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850 interferes with 800 MHz and 900 EGSM

900MHz

925MHz

915MHz

894MHz

880MHz

824MHz

869MHz

862MHz

791MHz

832MHz

849MHz

821MHz

DL

DL

UL

UL

UL DL

960MHz

800MHz

850MHz

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925MHz

915MHz

862MHz

880MHz

791MHz

832MHz

788MHz

703MHz

758MHz

821MHz

733MHz

DL

DL

UL

UL

UL DL

960MHz

800 Band

900 band

Band 700

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Settlement the Problem

Step 1

•Formation of a joint committee•Technical aspect.•The financial aspect.

Step 2

•Adoption of spectrum allocation policies•Allocate 700MHz &800 for LTE

The settlement by 3-steps

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Step 3

part of Addendum and the License Agreement.

Up link Down link Bandwidth

791-801 832-842 2x10 MHz

The Licensee has to evacuate the rest of the frequencies in the

850 Mhz band (842-844.320( before the end of the first quarter

of 2018 and is allowed to use the band (825-835 ; 870-880) for

three years and six months using it for the Service starting from

the effective date of this Addendum, without affecting the

assigned spectrum in the 800 band

20 MHz 20 MHz825 -835 870-880

for three years and six months

Guard Band Guard Band791-821

791-80110MHz

832-84210 MHz

832 -862

LTELTE

5MHz

LTE

LTE LTE LTE

791MHz

MHz 862

MHz 821

MHz 832

UL

DL

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

LTE LTE

LTE LTE LTE

LTE

5 MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

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planning proposals of 800 Mhz

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planning proposals of 700

LTE LTE

5MHz

LTE

LTE LTE LTE

703MHz

MHz788

MHz733

MHz758

UL

DL

PPDR

PPDRPPDR

PPDR

7MHz

3MHz

MHz791

694MHz

MHz736

MHz751

LTE

LTE LTELTE

LTELTE

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

5MHz

7MHz

3MHz

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