Guidelines for Private Mobile Radio Spectrum Licenses

Definitions and Abbreviations

DMO: Direct Mode Operation

ECC: European Communication Commission is an executive body of the European Union responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and day-to-day running of the EU

ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute is an independent, non-profit, standardization organization in the telecommunications industry (equipment makers and network operators) in Europe, with worldwide projection.

ERP: Effective Radiated Power with respect to the half wave dipole antenna.

GCC Telecoms Bureau: A telecommunications Bureau, which conducts the coordination of spectrum assignments between neighbouring GCC countries and engages in the process of resolving cross-border interference cases.

ictQATAR: Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technology is the regulator in Qatar established under Amiri decree Law No. 36 for 2004 and as further defined in Amiri Decree Law No. 34/2006.

ITU-R: International Telecommunication Union - Radio Communications Bureau is a part of ITU which involves in the global management of the radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits

PMR: Private Mobile Radio

PABX: Private Automated Branch Exchange

PBX: Private Branch Exchange

Technical schedule (1): The part of the radio Spectrum license where the technical conditions for using the radio frequencies