Telecommunications and Post Early report from the Mobile Emergency Service pilot with Cell Broadcast in the Netherlands Policy Advisor Telematics Division/ Mr. Atma de Waal May 28 th - 29 th, 2002

2 Agenda Introduction Vision on the use of Cell Broadcast The origin of the Public Service Bundle concept Specific interest of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management Current steps Next steps until 2003

3 Introduction “ Give insight to the opportunities of (new) mobile communication technology in relation to policy for the sector traffic and transport.”

4 Vision on the use of Cell Broadcast Cell Broadcast as a medium for the improvement of the internal management and (in future) for government's services to the citizens. The main advantages of Cell Broadcast as a medium for the government's services: –Simple –Cheap –Geographic orientation of messaging –No extra costs per receiver

5 Public Service Bundle concept Service from the government towards the civilians implicates availability of Cell Broadcast as a network functionality for all the national mobile operators Government services suitable for Cell Broadcast have different specifics, like the need of bandwidth, geographical coverage and the option of giving priority to messages. Assessment of the government’s need for the use of Cell Broadcast. Argument for the government to ‘claim’ national capacity on the Cell Broadcast infrastructure from ALL operators for ALL public services.

6 Specific interest Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management Directorate-General for Telecommunications and Post: the availability of high class infrastructure Directorate-General for Passenger Transport/ Directorate-General for Freight Transport: location based information for shipping (water-level, etc.) and road user in urban area incident management on main highways incident management on main waterways traffic management Road Safety Text to speech Safe in-car use

7 Current steps taken Focus on the reliability of the technology Pilot Mobile Emergency Service (to gain political support) In Public-Private Partnership Currently one operator

8 Next steps until 2003 Pilot in-car services (region Noord Brabant) (text to icon/ in-car DRIPS) Research on safe in-car use in compliance with the hands-free-policy Assessment goverment’s public services Installation intermediar public and private parties (envisioned party: ICTU)