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ACCESS TO HIGH
SPEED NETWORKS AND SERVICES: WIRELESS LOCAL ACCESS NETWORKS (WIFI)
The Strategic Advisory Board on Information
Technologies,
Having regard to decree no. 2000-1080 of 7 November 2000 creating
a Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies, Having
regard to the question submitted for examination on 10 July 2001,
Recommends:
- implementing a voluntarist policy of opening
up the market of high population density places and hotspots,
particularly by the relaxation in the very near future of the
regulatory conditions, allowing rollouts without any assurance
of service quality;
- strengthening the technical and commercial positions of wireless
local access networks (WiFi) with respect to current and third
generation mobile networks;
- examining the harmonisation of additional frequencies at the
World Radiocommunications Conference of 2003;
- organising the sharing of frequency bands depending on the markets
and players, by drawing a distinction in particular on the basis
of the uses of the radioelectric spectrum :
* shared by private and community networks,
* private for a commercial service provided by operators or for
specific clients requiring special protection;
- investigating the possibility of a fee in
the event of frequencies for private use being granted, while
excluding the band close to 2.4 GHz which cannot in practice be
granted without causing jamming since it is shared;
- encouraging regulatory action and especially
the bringing into line of the French regulations with the recommendations
of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations;
- starting research and development projects covering in particular
security, service quality, performances and interoperability in
a multistandards context;
- not slowing down, without reason, the rollout of community urban
networks that are not managed commercially;
Done in Paris, 3 October 2002
By the Secretary General:
DIDIER LOMBARD
Members
of CSTI as of 3 October 2002
M.
Jean-François Abramatic, M. Bruno Bonnell, M. Thierry Breton,
M. Bernard Charlès, M. Michel Dahan, M. Jean-Jacques Damlamian,
M. Eric Delevaque, M. Stéphane Dottelonde, M. Jean-Pierre
Gloton, M. Claude Guéguen, M. Paul Hermelin, M. Jean-Marie
Hullot, M. Francis Jutand, M. Daniel Kaplan, M. Arnaud Lagardère,
M. Bernard Larrouturou, M. Jacques Le Marois, Mme Anne-Sophie
Pastel, M. Pasquale Pistorio, M. Jacques Stern, M. Serge Tchuruk,
Mme Agnès Touraine, M. Martin Vial.
ACCESS TO HIGH
SPEED NETWORKS AND SERVICES: POWER LINE CARRIERS
The Strategic Advisory Board on Information
Technologies,
Having regard to decree no. 2000-1080 of 7 November 2000 creating
a Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies, Having
regard to the question submitted for examination on 10 July 2001,
Recommends :
- establishing public guidelines describing:
* the characteristics and potentialities of power line carriers
in the French network, comprising the frequencies, accepted powers,
bandwiths and services offered,
* relations between the players and the steps to follow during
a rollout;
- giving strong and active support to standardisation actions
so as to achieve, in the near future, harmonisation at least at
European level;
- elaborating experimental licence clauses by concerted action
between the State, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
(ART), the Electricity Regulatory Board (CRE), the territorial
units and, where applicable, manufacturers; and implementing in
practice the authorisations resulting from their application,
while encouraging uses in the private field;
- allowing the players concerned, including Électricité
de France, to test various technical solutions by field experimentation.
Done in Paris, 3 October 2002
By the Secretary General :
DIDIER LOMBARD
Members
of CSTI as of 3 October 2002
M.
Jean-François Abramatic, M. Bruno Bonnell, M. Thierry Breton,
M. Bernard Charlès, M. Michel Dahan, M. Jean-Jacques Damlamian,
M. Eric Delevaque, M. Stéphane Dottelonde, M. Jean-Pierre
Gloton, M. Claude Guéguen, M. Paul Hermelin, M. Jean-Marie
Hullot, M. Francis Jutand, M. Daniel Kaplan, M. Arnaud Lagardère,
M. Bernard Larrouturou, M. Jacques Le Marois, Mme Anne-Sophie
Pastel, M. Pasquale Pistorio, M. Jacques Stern, M. Serge Tchuruk,
Mme Agnès Touraine, M. Martin Vial.
USES
OBSERVATION LABORATORIES
The Strategic Advisory Board on Information
Technologies,
Having regard to decree no. 2000-1080 of 7 November 2000 creating
a Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies, Having
regard to the question submitted for examination on 30 August
2002,
Recommends :
- strengthening public support for research
and experimentation on the ergonomics, knowledge and anticipation
of the uses of information and communication technology products,
services and contents;
- preferring the following choices instead of the creation of
an institutionalised network of uses observation laboratories:
* starting a funding programme for research and experimentation
on ergonomics and uses, and bringing into it, for example, public
laboratories, companies and/or other categories of innovators
and users,
* identifying innovative ways of detecting and supporting projects
borne by individuals or unstructured communities, for instance
through experimentation platforms,
* encouraging a greater number of research networks to integrate
the uses,
* supporting joint initiatives between the players involved, particularly
by the sharing of experiences and the development of international
relations;
- increasing support for experimentation platforms open to innovations
as regards uses, services or contents, and making some of them
accessible in a simplified and low-cost manner to small and medium
sized businesses, or even to associative players or informal communities;
- making the use of specialised public laboratories, or of the
afore-mentioned research platforms, eligible for advisory aid
funding, and especially for the Fonds régional d'aide au
conseil (FRAC- regional advisory aid fund);
- improving the taking into account of interdisciplinarity for
researchers in the field of ergonomics and uses, facilitating
their movement between disciplines and between public research
and businesses, and enriching the relevant training cycles;
- improving the methods and frequency of the observations of equipment
and of the uses made by bodies producing public statistics, particularly
in businesses and in education;
- supporting public, private and associative monitoring of uses
and emerging services.
Done in Paris, on 3 October 2002
By the Secretary General :
DIDIER LOMBARD
Members
of CSTI as of 3 October 2002
M. Jean-François Abramatic, M.
Bruno Bonnell, M. Thierry Breton, M. Bernard Charlès, M.
Michel Dahan, M. Jean-Jacques Damlamian, M. Eric Delevaque, M.
Stéphane Dottelonde, M. Jean-Pierre Gloton, M. Claude Guéguen,
M. Paul Hermelin, M. Jean-Marie Hullot, M. Francis Jutand, M.
Daniel Kaplan, M. Arnaud Lagardère, M. Bernard Larrouturou,
M. Jacques Le Marois, Mme Anne-Sophie Pastel, M. Pasquale Pistorio,
M. Jacques Stern, M. Serge Tchuruk, Mme Agnès Touraine,
M. Martin Vial.
REACTION
AGAINST THE MARGINALISATION
OF EUROPE AND FRANCE AS REGARDS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES
The Strategic Advisory Board on Information
Technologies,
Having regard to decree no. 2000-1080 of 7 November 2000 creating
a Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies,
Recommends :
- doubling public credits assigned to information
and communication technologies (ICTs) in order to reach an aggregate
public share devoted to ICT research and development over 5 years
of approximately 17 billion euros;
- accompanying this growth in a coherent manner with our international
partners, by regulatory and tax measures for ICTs, and in particular:
* a revision of and the removal of the cap on the research tax
credit,
* exemption from local business tax for research investments;
- funding as a priority in this framework multiannual projects,
that are part of an ongoing drive to master critical technologies,
in fields that are a direct responsibility of the public authorities:
domestic security, defence, e-administration, regionalisation,
education, health, environment;
- using these initiatives to experiment with innovative technologies
with industrial and commercial uses;
- implementing in the short term the opinion adopted by the Board
on 8 March 2002, regarding the setting in place of a management
structure for these projects ensuring a genuine public/private
partnership and having a legal personality;
- starting without delay direct negotiation with our European
partners for coordinated concrete actions based on national or
international cooperation programmes that exist or are being created:
EURÊKA (MEDEA+ for components, ITEA for software) and CELTIC
in telecommunications;
- accompanying the setting in place of, promoting and encouraging
the CELTIC cooperation project (Cooperation for European sustained
leadership in telecommunications), particularly by financial support
from the EU Framework Research and Development Programme;
- implementing the conclusions of the
report by the 'research and development' working group appended
to this recommendation.
Done in Paris, 3 October 2002
By the Secretary General :
DIDIER LOMBARD
Members
of CSTI as of 3 October 2002
M.
Jean-François Abramatic, M. Bruno Bonnell, M. Thierry Breton,
M. Bernard Charlès, M. Michel Dahan, M. Jean-Jacques Damlamian,
M. Eric Delevaque, M. Stéphane Dottelonde, M. Jean-Pierre
Gloton, M. Claude Guéguen, M. Paul Hermelin, M. Jean-Marie
Hullot, M. Francis Jutand, M. Daniel Kaplan, M. Arnaud Lagardère,
M. Bernard Larrouturou, M. Jacques Le Marois, Mme Anne-Sophie
Pastel, M. Pasquale Pistorio, M. Jacques Stern, M. Serge Tchuruk,
Mme Agnès Touraine, M. Martin Vial.
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Appended : Report
by the Research and Development working group " Reacting
against the marginalisation of Europe and France as regards information
and communication technologies"
