Accurately monitoring and predicting trends in mobile data consumption is important for spectrum policymakers and spectrum users alike. This research note considers the recent slowdown in year-on-year data growth. Read more...

Shows national all national mobile licences. Please note that not all licence holders offer services to the public. Sourcing and methodology is available here. Read more...

PolicyTracker’s updated 3.3—4.2 GHz benchmark tracks the status of spectrum policies related to this mid-band range across 87 countries 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 spectrum resources… Read more...

Since PolicyTracker’s last 3.3—4.2 GHz benchmark in August 2021, 34 nations that have assigned or plan to assign spectrum in the range, or both, have not changed their policy status whereas eight nations have progressed from the planning stage to the assignment of spectrum in the range. Read more...

In addition to the eight nations profiled in the second Research Note in this benchmark that have moved from the planning phase to the assignment phase for 3.3—4.2 GHz spectrum since 2021, 25 nations continue to advance assignments and planned assignments in the range. Read more...

Since PolicyTracker’s August 2021 3.3—4.2 GHz benchmark, 20 new countries have assigned or started planning to assign frequencies in the range, primarily for IMT/5G. Ten of these nations are in Europe, followed by six in Africa, three in the Americas and two in the Asia Pacific. Several additional nations have… Read more...

Of all assigned and planned assignments of 3.3—4.2 GHz spectrum, activity in European nations accounts for 39%, followed by Asia at 23%, the Americas at 20%, the Middle East at 10% and Africa at 8.5%. Across these awards, there is a wide variety of bandwidths in terms of total MHz… Read more...

See below for the frequency assignments and plans for 87 countries. Read more...

Mobile licences which have recently been awarded or renewed are shown on the left. Upcoming mobile awards are on the right. Details on sourcing and methodology are available here. Read more...

Recent consultations, upcoming auctions and articles highlighting the latest developments. Details on sourcing and methodology are available here. Read more...