The forum serves as a platform where different stakeholders have the opportunity to present their future needs for radio spectrum. This allows us to systematically identify these needs and use the information in our internal work.

Theme during fall 2024 – Communication Satellites

During the fall of 2024, the forum will focus on gaining a clearer understanding of the industry's needs for radio spectrum concerning satellite communication services and future service offerings.

The questions we seek answers to from your organisation include:

What are your future spectrum needs for communication satellite services?

You are expected to describe which frequency bands and frequency bandwith you will need over the next 5 to 15 years. This includes providing us with information on your needs for:

  • Uplink and downlink for customer access
  • Uplink and downlink to gateways
  • Uplink and downlink for telemetry tracking and command (TT&C)
  • Inter-satellite communication

Which services do you expect to offer in Sweden within each frequency band?

You are expected to describe the services you plan to offer in Sweden within each frequency band. This includes providing us with information on:

  • Which parts of Sweden you expect to have coverage in within each frequency band?
  • What services will the coverage enable?
  • What services you plan to offer in Sweden?
  • Whether you will transmit and receive traffic via gateway earth stations in Sweden?

Why should you participate?

The information that we receive from you will serve as an input to our long-term spectrum planning and could therefore lead to;

  • changes in the so-called Swedish Frequency Plan.
  • changes in Swedish positions within international harmonisation.
  • a more complete picture of the market on which we base our internal analyses and decision-making, which in turn can affect the national politics in different areas, for example broadband.
  • a better understanding of how the market for communication satellite services is developing.  

What will your participation look like?

  1. Your organisation registers its interest to participate to PTS.
  2. We invite your organisation to a preparatory meeting. This meeting will provide further information on the purpose for and methodology used in the second meeting.
  3. We will then invite relevant participants from your organisation to a digital, bilateral meeting where we will discuss the aforementioned questions.

The preparatory meeting will take place as soon as possible. The bilateral meetings will take place in October. At the latest in November. Both meetings will be held in a digital format  

Contact Us if You Want to Participate

Are you interested in participating in digital meetings and contributing to our work in identifying future spectrum needs for communication satellites?

If so, contact spectrumforum@pts.se to express your interest.

We would like your feedback by September 25th at the latest.

On the Need for Wireless Communication

The ongoing digitalisation of society is increasing the use of technological solutions, such as connected devices (Internet of Things, IoT), autonomous vehicles, and other equipment that relies on wireless communication. Radio spectrum will continue to be used in more and more areas to connect people, systems, sensors, vehicles, and other things. When new needs arise, PTS requires information from market stakeholders about future spectrum needs to effectively plan spectrum management in the long term.

Previous Themes in the Technical Forum

In the spring of 2024, we held both digital bilateral meetings and a physical networking event with representatives from the automotive industry to discuss their connectivity and spectrum usage needs over the next 5-10 years.

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