Spectrum Research Service: L-Band is getting wider

One of the (only) major achievements of the mobile industry at WRC-15 was the near-global identification of the 1427 – 1518 MHz band for IMT. EU Member States were already planning on awarding the 1452 – 1492 MHz band, but now the European technical authority, CEPT, has completed more studies on extending on the band’s usage across the full 91 MHz of spectrum.

Awarding the band will not be straight forward as each country has its own set of current users in the bands. Nevertheless, the CEPT studies and the presence of E-UTRA bands across the wide spectrum range establish a basis for more extensive mobile use of the band in the future.

You can read our L-Band Research Note here, as well as accessing overviews, graphs and statistics about the other current mobile bands.

Not much to see here: mobile L-band assignments

A full list of the Research Notes about current mobile bands is below:

• 450 MHz
• 600 MHz
• 700 MHz
• 800 MHz
• 850 MHz
• 900 MHz
• L-Band
• 1800 MHz
• 1900 MHz
• AWS Bands
• 2.1 GHz
• 2.3 GHz
• 2.6 GHz
• 3.3 – 3.8 GHz
• 3.7 – 4.2 GHz
• 5.1 – 5.9 GHz

By Toby Youell