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Canadian Table of Frequency Allocations 9 kHz to 275 GH (2009 Edition)

December 2009
Spectrum Management and Telecommunications

Industry Canada, 2009

The revised Canadian Table of Frequency Allocations is available electronically on the Spectrum Management and Telecommunications Web site at the following address: http://www.ic.gc.ca/spectrum.

Spectrum and Radio Policy
Telecommunications Policy Branch
Room 1610A, 300 Slater Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1A 0C8

Foreword

The Canadian Table of Frequency Allocations assigns the electromagnetic spectrum between 9 kHz and 275 GHz (275-400 GHz is unallocated at this time) and establishes the frequency allocations available for radio services in Canada. The Canadian Table of Frequency Allocations is based on the provisions of the Final Acts resulting from the various World Radio Conferences (WRC), including the WRC 2007, convened by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The Canadian Table and the associated general information will, from time to time, need to be revised. Such revisions occur when changes to the ITU Table are made as a result of World Radiocommunications Conferences or particular Canadian radio service requirements. The Canadian Table of Frequency Allocations reflects international changes while taking into account Canadian requirements to ensure that government, commercial and private users have full flexibility to develop new radio applications.

The Canadian Table is intended to respond to Canadian domestic spectrum requirements, and consequently reflects Industry Canada's spectrum allocation and utilization policies developed through public consultation. It should be noted, therefore, that the Canadian Table differs, where necessary, from the ITU Table.

Canadian radio systems and spectrum utilization policies set the necessary elements for the use of frequency bands and/or radio services. Spectrum policies have traditionally designated the use of a radio service to certain applications in a particular frequency band, or bands. The spectrum designations are intended to accommodate a diversity of applications and users. Examples include designating the use of a mobile radio application for public safety applications or designating a fixed allocation to point-to-multipoint systems.

In some cases the use of a band, or the use of a service in a band, is withheld pending the development of a spectrum utilization policy. In cases where no spectrum utilization policy provisions exist in a given band, and there is no footnote withholding use, spectrum access may be available on a case-by-case basis.

Spectrum utilization policies developed in recent years have given more attention to defining the relationship between co-primary services in the same band. In some cases however, spectrum utilization policy provisions exist for one service but not another co-primary service allocated in a given band. This is particularly true where the implementation of the co-primary service is infrequent. In this case, coordination and authorization of systems within the service are generally handled on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the utilization designations for the other service.

Information on the Canadian Table of Frequency Allocations and its interpretation with respect to various spectrum utilization policies issued by Industry Canada can best be obtained by contacting:

Director, Spectrum and Radio Policy
Telecommunications Policy Branch
Industry Canada
300 Slater Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1A 0C8

E-mail address: wireless@ic.gc.ca

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