Obstacles for MCX Broadband and how to overcome them

Heikki RiippaSenior AdvisorVirveverkko Oypart of Erillisverkot Group Photos Erillisverkot

unless otherwise Stated

Facts of Finland and Virve

Average ~ 2 pers./km2

Average~ 216 pers./km2

Average~ 17 pers./km2

• Geographical area: 338.000 km², population: 5,5 million (> 35 % Larger than UK with 65 million people)

• Member of EU; 1.340 km Schengen border with Russia

• Virve network:

• Geographical coverage 96.7%

• 100 % owned by State of Finland

• 1.400 Base Stations, 17 Switches, vendor: Airbus

• All Security Authorities in One Shared Network

• > 43.000 subscribers

• ~ 150.000 group calls and ~ 8 million SDS messages/ day

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Arctic Circle

3Photo: Olavi Airaksinen, Police

Commitment!

Co-operation!Strategic Approach!

User needs !

Finnish Roadmap to Mission Critical Broadband

• 2005 – 2015 International lobbying for Dedicated PPDR Spectrum

• 2015 WRC decision for PPDR LTE Spectrum; dedicated 700MHz, but national regulators to decide…

• 2015 – 2017 National discussions and lobbying for dedicated spectrum – not succeeded …

• 2017 National decision to auction the 700 MHz slots to commercial mobile operators

• 2017 – 2019 Changes in legislation: ErillisverkotOy as Service Operator, Virve 2.0 project launched

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RCEG

1. Virve 2.0 national goals

Virve 2.0 - The Most Desired and Trusted Mission Critical Mobile Broadband service for PPDR and Other Critical Users

Implement nation wide Mission Critical

mobile Broadband service for PPDR

Enable competitive pricing

Offer Mission Critical mobile Services

produced by national service operator in

co-operation with the PPDR users

Run Mission Critical Mobile services and

enable national roaming

Offer scalable services (critical; non-critical)

Guarantee availability in all situations and

circumstances (Geo; Priority; Capacity)

Guarantee high data security

Enable interoperability and integration

Enable terminal independency (any 3GPP standard)

Provide solutions based on 3GPP standards

(REL15 and beyond)

Support national supply and preparedness

96,7 %

Coverage – Availability must be guaranteed byMCX SERVICE PROVIDER

Citizen Coverage• Virve 99,7• Commercial LTE 98%

Geographical Coverage• Virve 96,7• Commercial LTE 75%

Min. of Traffic and Communications:• Citizen Coverage 2020 99%

MOCN or MVNO ?• On MOCN model Service Operator administrates and

operates all MCX Core Network elements

• MNO administrates and operates only base stations

(E_UTRAN) and transition to MCX Core Network

• Service operator has access to base stations

via operating application

• MOCN benefits:

• End Users see the also Virve 2.0 network code on service area

• If needed, there is a possibility to close the service network

from MNO clients and limit the whole network

(or single basestations) service only for Virve 2.0 users

• Possibility to add dedicated base stations to Virve 2.0 -service

RAN

MNO Service Operator

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Mission

Critical

Apps

GROUP

COMMUNICATIONS

VIDEO

SERVICES

DATA

SERVICES

SITUATIONAL

AWERENESS

Virve 2.0 main elements

• Setting up the Service Operator

• Purchasing radio access network as a service

• Ensuring high security, availability and resilience

• Migration from narrowband Virve TETRA to

Virve 2.0 Broadband services

• Development of partnerships

• Related international co-operation

• Co-ordinating user training

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2025

20222019

2020

Stage 1 Acquisition

Phase 1 Implementation

Phase 2 Acquisition

Virve 2.0 Tested and Approved

Migration Begins Migration Complete

Development Begins

Mission Critical SIM

Mission Critical AppsRAN &Core

Digitalization – new challenges & opportunities for Public Safety

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Situational awareness

Continuous real time

information

Automatically generated data

& reports

Robotics & IOT securing the

field operations

Virve 2.0 on government program

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Commitment!

Co-operation!Strategic Approach!

User needs !

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