Introduction The questionnaire was submitted to the 48 CEPT countries. Contributing countries are highlighted in red in. 1: Responses received regarding interference cases in 2016 (in red) Albania Andorra Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Malta Monaco Montenegro Moldova Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation San Marino Serbia Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland The Netherlands The United Kingdom Turkey Ukraine Vatican City 39 CEPT administrations provided a response. Latvia provided an answer in 2016 but not in 2017. Azerbaijan provided an answer in 2017 but not in 2016. The responses from the 39 CEPT administrations report interferences cases. Comparing responses from the same countries reported for 2015 and 2016 (Azerbaijan, Latvia are excluded), there is an increase from 23526 to 30730 interference cases (increase of about 30.6%, while the change in 2014->2015 was about 7%). However, this includes reporting from the Czech Republic about an increase of interference into the Broadcasting (terrestrial UHF video) of about 1500 additional cases compared to 2015 alone, and Germany included (the same as last year) about 1000
In 2016, as in 2014 and 2015, the highest number of interference cases was in the category ‘public mobile networks’. Table 2: Interference cases (top categories) in 2012 – 2016 timeframe Reporting Year 2012 interference case 2013 interference 2014 interference 2015 interference cases 2016 Interference cases Broadcast Reception 5919 4187 (about 30% decrease) 5148 (includes Turkey and Russia) (4954 for 37 CEPT countries (w/o Turkey and Russia) – comparison i.e. about 18% increase) Decrease when calculating w/o Czech Republic 8769 (incl. 5811 from the Czech Republic; w/o Czech Republic: 2829 cases); However in some countries LTE-DVB-T interference cases were resolved between operators and therefore not reported in the overall statistic. Public Mobile Networks 4621 4192 6212 (includes Turkey and Russia) (4826 for 37 CEPT countries (w/o Turkey and Russia) – comparison 2013-2014, i.e. about 15% increase) 6612 (38 countries, without Austria) – comparison 2014, i.e. about 7% increase 10633 (39 countries) This is an increase of about 58%and includes about 1600 additional cases compared with 2015 from the Russian Federation. But at the same number of cases where public mobile network is interfering is also growing.
Hungary 368 178 0 15 71 5 6 93 Italy 949 99 20 127 226 179 150 129 19 Luxembourg 8 3 1 4 Macedonia (FYROM) 17 2 6 1 2 6 Moldova 11 1 6 3 1 Portugal 281 15 29 9 114 41 6 46 21 Romania 301 163 46 2 28 14 15 12 21 Russian Federation 2790 67 1567 125 332 62 107 530 0 Serbia 51 7 22 1 13 1 3 4 Slovakia 158 5 1 39 64 10 30 7 2 Slovenia 155 6 11 12 14 45 4 8 55 Sweden 100 52 9 19 3 1 16 Switzerland 262 87 5 135 5 30 Turkey 381 29 131 58 53 107 3 Ukraine 922 96 298 82 33 6 34 373 0 Total (2015) (for comparison) 7105 602 911 439 829 354 2451 1253 266 Total (2016) 12150 927 2232 710 1495 437 4407 1715 217 The comparison between 2015 and 2016 is difficult and main changes result from the Czech Republic (plus 1500 cases in the UHF terrestrial broadcast) and the Russian Federation (1567 cases reported under use without a licence, plus about 900 cases in total). Nevertheless, there are increase of about 54% in non-complaint radio devices as well as 80% from faulty radio equipment between 2015 and 2016 and this may need to be investigated further in detail. Intermodulation seems to become a growing issue (though the reported figures are dominated by the high numbers reported from the Czech Republic). Proposal