Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s new Prime Minister, is unhappy about the prices charged by mobile operators NTT Docomo, KDDI and SoftBank and said the government should consider increasing the fees they pay to use spectrum. Read more...

The possibility of acquiring their own localised 5G spectrum is attracting the attention of well-known Japanese companies, although not solely from the sector one might expect.  Read more...

Japan's telecoms ministry has awarded spectrum to the country's three established mobile operators—NTT Docomo, KDDI and SoftBank—along with the recent new entrant Rakuten.  Read more...

Big private profits are being generated through the use of a publicly owned asset, according to the country’s chief cabinet secretary. Read more...

NTT Docomo, KDDI and Softbank have cautioned against an over-reliance on bid size when making spectrum awards, as the Japanese government mulls a shake-up in frequency assignments. Read more...

Japan is deciding how to award frequencies in the 1.7 GHz and 3.4 GHz bands, a process that could pave the way for a disruptive newcomer and a significant change in the country's approach to spectrum assignment. Read more...

NTT Docomo and Nokia have launched a research project that will aim to achieve a throughput speed of 10 Gbps with optimised latency using the 4.4–4.9 GHz band. Read more...

The plans reveal the areas of 5G research that key technology vendors are undertaking, as well as their current assumptions about 5G. Read more...