Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post of

SENEGAL

Missions, Procedures and ActivitiesPresented by

Khalilou NIANE, Director of Radiocommunications

01 June 2017, LUXEMBOURG

Our vision: A regulatory authority of reference, a key player in the development of the digital

economy, for an emerging Senegal

SUMMARY

1. Introduction to ARTP

2. Missions

3. Duties and Prerogatives

4. Legal Regimes

5. Frequency management activities

6. Frequency control activities

7. Frequency management and control system

8. Evolution of authorizations by type of network from 2013 to 2017

9. Satellite coordination activities

10. Management Procedures and Frequency Control

11. Achievements 2016 -2017

12. Outlook for 2017

INTRODUCTION TO ARTP

The Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ART) is an independent regulatory

body created by Act 2001-15 of 27 December 2001 to guarantee the exercise of

fair and healthy competition for the benefit of consumers , Of the operators of the

sector.

In 2006, ART became ARTP (Telecommunications and Postal Regulatory

Agency) since the promulgation of Law n ° 2006-15 of 4 January 2006 extending

the powers of ART to the regulation of the postal sector.

In 2011, the Agency changed its status and became Regulatory Authority for

Telecommunications and Post by the Law N ° 2011-01 of 24 February 2011 on

the Code Of telecommunications.

• Mission general (enforcement of regulations, advice, opinions and proposals of

legislation and regulations to the President of the Republic and the Government);

• Ensuring compliance with the rules of fair competition;

• Monitor the specifications of the operators;

• Ensuring respect for equitable interconnection between operators;

• Ensure the management and control of scarce resources (frequencies and

numbers);

• Implement régulatoirs tools (approval of the technical and pricing terms of

unbundling, the modalities of implementation of carrier selection, ensure the

definition and implementation of the terms and conditions of number portability);

• Frame rates of SMP operators;

• Coordinate the implementation of the development policy of universal service /

access;

• Grant permissions and ensure the implementation of the regulation, registration and

domain name management and establish an appropriate management mechanism;

• Participate in the representation of Senegal in meetings organized by internationalorganizations when with matters falling within its mission.

MISSIONS

Duties:

advisory functions: ARTP is consulted by line ministries on all draft legislation and

regulations; to do this, ARTP consult, in turn, the players in regulated sectors;

Informative Functions: ARTP publishes an official bulletin, available on its website.

Prerogatives:

Settle disputes between the operators of regulated sectors on the one hand and,

secondly, between operators and consumers, on the other;

Punish breaches of operators under the laws and regulations of their concession

agreements and specifications;

Investigate and detect violations of the Code of Telecommunications and Post

Code;

Require modification of unfair terms of operator contracts;

If necessary, compel financial operators.

Duties and prerogatives

Article 20 of the Telecommunications Law states that

telecommunications networks and services shall be subject, under the

conditions defined by this Act and its implementing regulations, to one

of the following regimes:

The licensing regime;

The authorisation regime;

The notication regime.

Legal Regimes

• The licence for setting up and/ or operating public telecommunications networks is a

right granted by the Decree on approval of a Concession Agreement and Contract

Specications;

• The licence covers all networks open to the public, irrespective of the process and

techonology used;

• Each licensing process is conducted through competitive bidding under the

supervision of ARTP and the operational procedure comprises at least the following

3 stages:

Call for tender;

Submission of application;

Processing of application;

Awarding of the licence.

The licensing regime

The authorisation regime

• The authorisation Private involves independent networks. A private independant

network is a telecommunications network reserved for private or joint use within an

organisation body.

• Independant network may be set up and operated by any individual or legal entity,

subject to authorisation issued to the operator by the Authority, after the

submission of a request for authorisation duly completed on an Application form to

be collected by the Authority.

The notication regime

• Notification involves value-added services.• The value-added services are defined by the Law No. 2011-01 of 24 February 2011 on

Telecommunications Code as all non-transmitting telecommunications compenentswich,while not using support services or final telecommunications services, either add other services to support service or meet new and specific telecommunications requirements.

• The Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post, establishes the list of involvesvalue-added services.

• The applicant shall submit a Notication of the intention to open a service by filling out a relevant forme to be collected from the Authority. The noticication shall contain the following pieces of information, among others:

• Pratical details of the opening of the service;• Geographical coverage;• Access condition;• Kind of services to be provided;• Tariffs to be charged to users.

Activities of frequency spectrum management

• At the technical level, the Authority through the Direction of Radiocommunications

provides, on behalf of the State, the management, planning, allocation, assignment

and control of spectrum for frequencies relating to telecommunications and to

broadcasting.

• Its main function is therefore to ensure the efficient management and rational use of

the radio spectrum in Senegal. The main frequency management activities are:

• Network engineering;

• Frequency band planning;

• Assignment of frequencies;

• Assignment of call signs and MMSI numbers;

• Up date of the National Frequency Allocation Table (TANAF);

• Up date of the National Frequency File;

Coordination, notification and recording of frequency assignments and

Plan modifications

Notification of call signs and MMSI number

Elaboration of the national contribution at the World Radiocommunication

Conferences

Participation in the work of the ITU-R Study Groups

Establishment of licenses for radio networks

Billing of radio networks

Issuing of import licenses for radio equipment, radio amateurs, radio

operators and equipment and installation approvals;

Monitoring compliance with operating procedures for radio networks;

Activities of frequency spectrum management

Checking of the respect for the technical assigned characteristics:

Detection of the illicit emissions;

Location of the illicit emissions with radiogoniometer system;

Treatment of the complaints of jamming;

Control of the radio installations for private networks, aboard ships,

aircrafts; Listening and measure of the frequencies for new assignments;

Determination of the occupation rates of the spectrum by the prospecting

of bands;

Checking of the use of the frequencies on the borders.

Activities of frequency monitoring

In 2007, ARTP acquired an advanced automated frequency management and control

system consisting of a fixed station and two equipped vehicles.

The new system have these functions :

application and licence processing;

spectrum planning;

technical frequency assignment;

national and international coordination;

monitoring and control of frequencies;

direction finding;

Measures network coverage

Network engineering

billing and financial management.

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND FREQUENCY CONTROL

CONFIGURATION OF FIXED STATION

Câble de contrôledes rotateurs

Cables HF

Antenne de gonio. UHFADD0711,3 à 3 Ghzpol. Verticale

Antenne de gonio. VHF/UHFADD19720 à 1300 Mhzpol. Horizontale et verticale

Monopole actifHe01010 KHz à 80 MHz

Vert.

Unité d'alimentation

IN061

Ordinateur de contrôle pour station fixeWindows / MS office

Contrôle et Mesure : Logiciel ARGUS Enregistrement Audio : ARGUS-AUD/RR

Localisation : MapView

SECTION ANTENNESAntenne log.-per.HL033

80 à 1300 MHz

Rotateurd'azimuth

Antenne log.-per.HL040

400 à 3000 MHz

Rotateur de polarisation

Câble de contrôle des antennes de goniométrie

ESMD

ESMD DF

9 kHz á 3,6 z

20 à 3000 z

GH

GH

Dispositif d'entrée des câbles au bâtiment et de protection contre surtension

R O U T E U R

Vers /deCentre de contrôleYeumbeul

ImprimanteLazer Couleur

DIN A4

Antenneomnidirectionnelle

1,3 à 3 GHz

HF902

vert. + horiz.

X1vert.

X2horiz.

Dipole passif

20 - 1300 MHzHK309

vertical

X1

L A N S W IT C H

Station Fixe de Goniométrie HF associéeune au Centre Saint-Louis

( )et une

au centre de Tambacounda PHASE II

CONFIGURATION OF MOBILE STATION

Câble HF

Cable de contrôledes antennes degoniométrie

Antenne de goniométrieV/UHF

20 à 3000 zMH

Unité de sélection d'antennes y compris alimentation (DC feeds)

pour les antennes actives

ZS129A1

Contrôle systèmede rotation

Antenne activeà large bande

20 MHz à 3 GHzHE500

Contrôle sélecteurd'antennes

Monopole actifHE01010 KHz à 80 MHz

Vert.

Unité de contrôled'antennes

GB127M

Unité de contrôledu mât telescopique

GB127MU

de/aumâttélescopique

CompasElectroniqueSimrad IS15

RS 232

GPS

Senseurcompas

RS 232

Antenne Log-perActive

HL050S71 à 26,5 GHz

SECTION ANTENNES

LAN S W ITCH

SignalAudioou FI

Unité de communicationpar GSMGC128

RouterOrdinateur de contrôle du spectreWindows XP / MS Office

Logiciel de contrôle :ARGUS

Logiciel d’analyse

des signaux

RS 232

ImprimanteCouleur (Inkjet)

DIN A4

ESMD

ESMD DF

9 kHz á 3,6 z

20 à 3000 z

GH

GH

Antenne Log-per.

80 to 1300 MHzHL033

Rotateurd'azimut

Antenne Log-per.

400 to 3000 MHzHL040

Rotateur depolarisation

Antenne de goniométrieHF

ADD1190,5 - 30 MHZ

OPTION

Exige un grandvéhicule : Fourgon tel que MB-SPRINTER

Système portablede contrôle et de goniométrie

PR100

20 - 200 MHz

200 - 500 MHz

0.5 - 7.5 GHz

9 kHz - 20 MHz

Hand-held Directional AntennaH 300 / HE300-HFE

Antennetype "HORN"26,5 à 40 Ghz

Adaptateurd’exploitation

DownConverter

OPTION

Evolution of authorizations by type of network from 2013 to 2017

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PMR VSAT RADIOS FM TV BLR GSM FHROP FHPRI 2RC&3RP SMS MMDS CDMA UMTS/3 G/4G WiMax

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

Activities of satellite coordination

satellite network Administration

F-SAT-30B-10E France

TURKSAT 42E Turquie

ETHIOSAT-1 Ethiopie

IK-16-W-F, IK-26-W-F, IK-87-W-F Russie

HISPASAT 40A Royaume d’Espagne

Year 2016: 5 satellite networks

satellite network Administration

F-SAT-30B-21.5E France

NSS – 83W, NSS – 87W Royaume des Pays – Bas

HISPASAT 53A Royaume d’Espagne

PACIFISAT – BSSA 61E Papouasie – Nouvelle Guinée

IK-47.5-W Russie

Year 2017: 5 satellite networks

satellite network Administration

F-SAT-E30B-8W, 9E, 13E, 16E, 25.5E, 28.5E, 33E France

MR SAT – FSS 53.5W France

UKDIGISAT – 4C Royaume Uni de Grande Bretagne

UK – FSS 18W Royaume Uni de Grande Bretagne

UKMMSAT 4E Royaume Uni de Grande Bretagne

NSS – BSS G2 57E Royaume Uni des Pays – Bas

NSS – BSS 60E Royaume Uni des Pays – Bas

ARABSAT AXB 44.5E Royaume d’Arabie Saoudite

HISPASAT 30A Espagne

HISPASAT 34A Espagne

HISPASAT 35A Espagne

INSAT KUP – FSS 48E Inde

PACIFISAT – BSSA 61E Papouasie – Nouvelle Guinée

KAZSAT – 30B – 58.5E-2 Kazakhstan

Activities of satellite coordination

Year 2015 : 14 satellite networks

MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES

QR01: Broadcasting licensing

QR02: Border Coordination

QR03: Authorization for Private mobile radiocommunications

QR04: Authorization of VSAT and Wireless local loop

QR05: Approval of installation of radio equipment

QR06: Type Approval for radio equipment

QR07: Frequency control and radio installations

QR08: Notification to ITU

QR09: Assigning frequencies

QR10: MMSI assignment and Call sign

QR11: Control and management of control equipment, spare parts and

Associated maintenance

ACHIEVEMENTS 2016 -2017

1. Extension to the 4G of the SONATEL license in the

1800 and 800 MHz band;

2. Renewal of the concession agreement Sonatel

3. Allocation of 3 Access Provider licenses

Internet (ISP): WAW S.A.S, AFRICA ACCESS and ARC

INFORMATIQUE in the band 2,3 -2,4 GHz;

4. Identification of all subscribers as at 26 November

2016, with the reliability of the operators' customer

bases with the DAF CNI database;

5. Establishment of Protocol Free roaming or free

roaming by 7 regulatory authorities (Burkina Faso, Côte

d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Togo and Senegal)

on 28 November 2016

6. Establishment of Decree No. 2016-1987 of 14

December 2016 concerning the terms and conditions for

the granting of authorization for infrastructure operators

7. Carrying out campaigns for the control of the FH links of

mobile operators throughout the territory;

8. Carrying out a campaign to measure the network

coverage of mobile operators with our own tools;

9. Carrying out a measurement campaign Qos of networks

of mobile operators with the equipment acquired by the

ARTP;

10. Audit of ARTP processes for ISO 9001/2015 certification

11. Start of the experimental phase of Free roaming on 31

March 2017

OUTLOOK FOR 2017

1. Provide Senegal with a unique, standardized, reliable addressing system that integrates the needs of all public and private stakeholders by 30 September 2017.

2. Inauguration of the National Traffic Supervision Center before 30 June 2017

3. Audit ISO 9001/2015 certification of processes before September 30, 2017

4. Unbundling of the local SONATEL loop before 30 June 2017

5. Selection of infrastructure operators in 2017 (The specifications and the concession agreement are signed)

6. Launching Public call for applications for the licensing of virtual mobile operators (MVNO) in Senegal on 13 April 2017 - Licensing by June 2017

7. Revision of the Telecommunications Law.

8. Start of ISP activities (Internet service providers)

9. Rearrangement of certain frequency bands, in particular: 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 2600 MHz

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