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Weekly Wrap: Spectrum policymakers need to prepare for the worst
Aug 21, 2026
by Richard Handford

Taiwan made an unusual decision during its recently completed Han Kuang war games.  It deliberately slowed the speed of mobile networks in the central and northern parts of the country, including its two largest cities, Taipei and Taichung City. Read more...

AT&T and EchoStar close deal for 3.45 GHz and 600 MHz licences
Aug 21, 2026
by Cameron Hill

As the Dish parent company looks to sell all of its remaining spectrum licences, AT&T is paying $23 billion for 30 MHz of nationwide 3.45 GHz licences and 20 MHz of nationwide 600 MHz licences. Read more...

Japan is working on AFC in the 6 GHz band
Aug 20, 2026
by Richard Handford

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has shared a draft report outlining the technical requirements for enabling standard power Wi-Fi in the 6 GHz band. Read more...

Licence Renewals Database
Aug 20, 2026
by Martin Sims

This interactive database is compiled from the following comprehensive data set. Read more...

Iraqi regulator suspends MNO and plans to reallocate its spectrum to new entrant
Aug 19, 2026
by Jaroslaw Adamowski

The Iraqi regulator, the CMC, has decided to suspend the operations of Korek Telecom, which is active in the country's northern Kurdistan region. Read more...

Bangladesh 700 MHz
Aug 18, 2026
by Mirva Villa

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Read more...

Mobile Deployment Database: Methodology and Sourcing
Aug 18, 2026
by Laura Sear

The Mobile Deployment Database (MDD) combines two independently collected datasets: Teragence's network deployment data and the PolicyTracker Spectrum Database (PSD). Combined they show not only which mobile spectrum has been licensed in a given country, but the extend to which operators have made deployments in the bands. Teragence network deployment… Read more...

Mobile Deployment Database: FAQ
Aug 18, 2026
by Laura Sear

Where does the Mobile Spectrum Deployment Tracker source its data? The key metric in the Teragence dataset is the sector count. This sector count is crowdsourced data from a variety of third-party mobile apps. It covers 43 countries and is updated every quarter.The dataset measures the number of sectors in… Read more...

Spain changes NFAT to boost transport and private 5G
Aug 18, 2026
by Carlos José Jijón

The Spanish government has made changes to its national frequency allocation table (NFAT), reallocating spectrum to support railways, defence and private 5G networks.  Read more...