Peter BuryRadio Spectrum Policy GroupBrussels 11 February 2010

London 2012 Olympic Games

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Scale of the London 2012 Games

Olympic

27 Jul 2012 – 12 Aug 2012

Paralympic29 Aug 2012- 9 Sep 2012

Sports 26 20

Disciplines 39 21

Events 300 471

Days of competition 17 11

Competition venues 34 21

Tickets 7.6m 1.5m

Athletes 10,500 4,200

NOC/NPC team officials

7,500 2,300

IF/IPSF officials 3,000 1,200

Media and broadcasters

21,000 6,500

Volunteers 70,000 40,000

Ofcom’s task

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Acquire spectrum• Sourced from public sector loans (MOD, CAA etc) and Digital Switchover• MOU with public sector

Turn the spectrum into licensable assignments• Initial licensing plan mid-2010 based on detailed access/sharing studies• Key dependency on venue and event planNB The quality of the licensing plan is key to success at Games time.

Get the assignments into the hands of the users• IS development for applications portal and licensing system• Arrangements for testing and tagging user equipment

Manage any interference• Investment in new equipment, recruitment and training• Deploy people in venues to deal with interference or make new assignments

Deliver the post-Games legacy• Planning for Glasgow 2014•Transfer skills and learnings to future Olympic cities

Manage business-as-usual

Testing and m

onitoring

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Olympic Park

Central ZoneRiver Zone

TOCSilver

Mobile Central

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Field Operations – Overall Approach to Command and Control

• Small core senior team • Based at Ofcom Monitoring Station

• Overall view - Olympics & BAU• Connection to internal &

external information and decision making

Olympic Park

River ZoneCentral Zone

GoldControl

Weymouth

LOCOG

BAU Teams

Other UK Venues

Ofcom Senior ManagementBAU Focus

Crisis ManagementPolitical & Media Relations

GoldBaldock

LOCOG TOCWeymouthOverall Olympics Interference Mgt24 hour operationInterface with LOCOG

Based at key venuesDirect access to spectrum users

On the ground interference managementSenior Field Engineers each lead team of four

Silver

Bronze

How the teams will work

• Teams– Coverage for 16 hours per day, 7 days a week at most venues– Four teams for most venues / zones working 2 x 8 hour shifts, 4 days on / 4

days off– One Ofcom colleague per team – not necessarily the Team Leader– Equipment supplied by Ofcom

• Contracts

– NRA’s will loan Engineers to Ofcom under a secondment agreement– Engineers continue to be paid by their home organisation– Ofcom will pay NRAs an agreed rate per day to include travel costs– Accommodation will be found and paid by Ofcom

• Approximate Timing – c. 10-13 weeks in total– June to December 2010 – 2 weeks for training and test events (2/3 visits). – January to December 2011 – 3 weeks for training and test events (3/4 visits)– June to July 2012 – 2 weeks Induction and team building– July to September 2012 – c. 3 – 6 weeks

• The Olympic Games run from 27 July to 12 August 2012 and the Paralympic Games run from 29 August to 12 September 2012

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Next Steps

• Make contact with European Regulators and establish initial interest levels– RA1 meeting Kristiansand December 2009– Letter from Ofcom COO to heads of NRAs January 2010– Presentation to RSPG February 2010

• NRAs consider if their organisations would like to participate – to March 2010

• Selection of Engineers – May / June 2010

• Put secondment agreements in place with NRAs – June 2010

• UK visits for training and test events – from June 2010

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