by Richard Handford
e& is a telecoms group headquartered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and operating in 38 countries across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Central/Eastern Europe. Read more...
by Richard Handford
China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile operator, has more than one billion subscribers. At the end of December 2025, the company had a total subscriber base of over 1.005 billion. Read more...
by Richard Handford
Reliance Jio Infocomm is the largest mobile operator in India by subscriber count. It launched from scratch ten years ago and now dominates the market. And since 2025, the company has become the largest fixed wireless access (FWA) operator in the world. Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
PolicyTracker’s 6 GHz benchmark covers implemented and planned unlicensed and licensed policies for spectrum in the band in 122 nations. One hundred and thirteen countries have unlicensed 6 GHz policies, while 21 of these nations are included in both the unlicensed and licensed categories. Twenty-nine nations that have unlicensed 6… Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
Nations in Asia have typically adopted unlicensed 6 GHz policies in the 5925-6425 MHz range. Across all regions, the most concrete plans to license spectrum in the Upper 6 GHz range are found in Asia, following the lead of China and Hong Kong and taking into consideration 6 GHz IMT-related… Read more...
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...