by Dianne Northfield
As nations around the world continue to implement 6 GHz policies – for both unlicensed and licensed use – there is significant variance in approaches leading to a fragmented policy landscape both across and within regions of the world. Policy variance relates not only to unlicensed or licensed policy positions,… Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
Regulators in all parts of the world continue to implement policies targeting spectrum resources for use by private networks. PolicyTracker’s updated private networks benchmark includes 70 nations, up from 54 in September 2024. Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
As a growing number of nations around the world continue to implement policy frameworks to assign spectrum for use by private networks, there is wide diversity and hence fragmentation in terms of both frequency band and sub-band targets and bandwidth amounts that are assigned and planned in different countries. Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
PolicyTracker’s updated 3.3-4.2 GHz benchmark tracks the status of spectrum policies related to this mid-band range across 122 countries and territories that continue to progress assignments for IMT/5G use, along with a growing number of nations that are earmarking spectrum for use on a localised basis. While the assignment of… Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
Nations in Asia represent twenty-three per cent of the nations and territories included in PolicyTracker’s updated 3.3-4.2 GHz benchmark. There are 3.5 GHz assignment activities in 28 nations in the region, with 19 of these focused exclusively on the 3.3-3.6 GHz range. Ten new countries in the region are now… Read more...
by Jonathan Watson
Current status of 3.3 - 4.2 GHz deployments in Asia Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
PolicyTracker’s 3.3-4.2 GHz benchmark spans 122 nations and territories that have assigned or plan to assign spectrum in the range. Across these assignments, there is a wide range of bandwidths in terms of total MHz amounts assigned, amounts assigned per operator and specific frequency ranges prioritised for assignment. There are… Read more...
by Richard Handford
The price of spectrum remains a central issue in India but now the discussion is as likely to involve frequencies for satellite as for IMT. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The country’s spectrum strategy revolves around attaining leadership in the next generation of mobile technology, with 6G being no exception. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) awarded IMT frequencies in the 4.9 GHz band to SoftBank in November 2024 through a beauty contest but its next award might be via country’s first spectrum auction. Read more...