Nations in Asia, Africa and the Middle East represent thirty-eight percent of global policy developments in the assignment and planned assignment of spectrum for use by private networks. New countries added to the benchmark in the Middle East are Israel, Oman, Qatar and the UAE, while Namibia and Somalia are… Read more...

As nations around the world continue to assign spectrum for private localised use, there is interest in a wide range of bands and significant fragmentation across frequency ranges targeted within bands and across countries and regions. There is also wide variance in the amount of spectrum that different countries are… Read more...

While different stakeholders continue to lobby for and against spectrum set-asides for private networks, PolicyTracker’s updated private networks benchmark shows that a growing number of policy planners around the world are assigning dedicated spectrum resources. This Research Note highlights different stakeholder positions on set-asides and examines the policy objectives driving… Read more...

Since PolicyTracker’s last publication of its private networks benchmark in 2022, a growing pool of regulators around the world continues to assign spectrum for use by private networks on a localised basis. Many more regulators are also planning to release spectrum for such use in the short term. Read more...

Nations in Asia are assigning 26/28 GHz spectrum for localised use, along with spectrum across multiple mid-band ranges. Notable developments in the region since the publication of PolicyTracker’s last private network benchmark are discussed below. Read more...

Part one of this update detailed private spectrum policy development at a global level while part two dealt with Asia. This Research Note provides a view of developments in the rest of the world across Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. Read more...

The assignment of spectrum in frequency ranges between 3300—3800 MHz and in the 26 GHz range dominate private spectrum policy agendas. Despite this focus on mid-band and mmWave spectrum, there is a wide variance in both the spectrum bands and bandwidth amounts allocated for private use across different countries. Read more...

An overview of the national technical criteria and licensing approaches used. Read more...

Amid the woes of the "Big Tech" companies in 2022, including wide-scale layoffs and project scale-backs, in 2023, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft continue to advance spectrum policy agendas across an array of spectrum bands and sectors. Spectrum sharing and unlicensed spectrum are high on the spectrum policy agendas of… Read more...

These are summarised in the the table below. (For an updated version from July 2024 please see this page) Read more...