by Toby Youell
The Australian Communications and Media Authority is consulting on several legislative instruments that will enable the planned sale of the 850/900 MHz band this November. Together, the instruments define what is being sold at auction, how the auction will be conducted and the technical requirements for the operation of devices… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is consulting on its draft Five-year spectrum outlook 2021-26. The document includes its revised plans for the 850/900 MHz band auction, its potential new planning arrangements at 6 GHz and 1880 - 1920 MHz, and simultaneous review of the extended MSS L-Band and… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Hong Kong Communications Authority and Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development are jointly consulting on how to re-assign rights to the 850 MHz band when they expire in November 2023. According to the consultation paper, available here, the authorities believe the spectrum should be made available in an auction.… Read more...
by Toby Youell
May 14, 2020: The ACMA has now published this consultation paper here. The consultation will close on July 8. May 11, 2020 The Australian regulator, the ACMA, will soon issue a consultation on how it should award the 850/900 MHz band. The regulator decided in December 2019 that it would… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Australian communications regulator, the ACMA, has issued its draft five-year spectrum outlook 2020-24 to a public consultation. The document includes how it intends to: revise and update its forward allocation plan plan for private long-term evolution networks explore new bands for monitoring set out a detailed work plan for… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Hong Kong's regulator, the CA, plans to issue a consultation during 2020 concerning its planned award of 2 x 7.5 MHz within the 850 MHz band. Current rights for the band expire in November 2023, while the award itself would take place during 2021. Read more...
by Toby Youell
Peru's Ministry of Transport and Communications has issued a consultation on proposed spectrum caps. The caps would prevent a single entity from holding more than 140 MHz of low-band spectrum and more than 120 MHz of mid-band spectrum. Low-band spectrum is defined as the 450 MHz, 700 MHz, 800 MHz,… Read more...
by Toby Youell
South Africa's independent telecoms regulator, ICASA, is consulting on a draft roadmap for IMT (mobile broadband). ICASA has said that responses to the consultation will inform its future policies for the bands, including potential awards. The roadmap is intended to provide for greater mobile broadband coverage at lower prices. Read more...
by Patrick Gahan
Mexico's IFT is seeking comments on the regulators proposed technical specifications for the use of mobile terminal equipment in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 850 MHz, 1900 MHz, AWS and 2.5 GHz Bands. Read more...
by PolicyTracker
The Myanmar government would like views on their 5-year spectrum release roadmap. According to the document, the regulator, the Ministry for Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), is planning to auction nearly 400 MHz of spectrum in five bands - 700 MHz, 850/900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.6 GHz -… Read more...