Indonesia completed its first spectrum auction in over three years, but some might say that the recent dissolution of the country's regulator is a more significant development. Read more...

Greek regulator EETT has sold licences in the 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands just two weeks before the European Commission’s 2020 spectrum deadlines. Read more...

Taiwanese mobile network operators (MNOs) Far EasTone and Asia Pacific Telecom want to share their frequencies in the 700 MHz band and have a spectrum swap as a fallback if the sharing deal is rejected by regulators. Read more...

Chile's 5G award has attracted interest not only from the four largest mobile operators but also from a new player, Borealnet, which is owned by the controversial US firm Rivada Networks. Read more...

Slovakian regulator the RÚ says four telecoms firms companies have acquired spectrum in the 700, 900 and 1800 MHz bands for a total of €100.2 million. Read more...

Lithuanian regulator RRT plans to launch a 700 MHz auction by the end of 2020 and sell 3.5 GHz spectrum in the first quarter of 2021. It will then auction the 26 GHz band if there is enough demand. Read more...

The Czech Republic's 5G auction concluded last week after several delays over the last two years. It seems not to have achieved its aim of introducing a fourth national competitor into the mobile market. Read more...

It's not clear why the prices in Israel's 700 MHz, 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz auction were noticeably asymmetric, but it could be due to the differing values of spectrum lots or the use of the combinatorial clock auction (CCA) format. Read more...

Austria's second 5G auction, which was postponed due to COVID-19, was completed this week, bringing in proceeds of almost €202 million.  Read more...

The UK has completed the four-year process of clearing spectrum previously used by broadcasting ahead of auctioning it to mobile network operators (MNOs) early next year.  Read more...