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 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...
by Dianne Northfield
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...
by Dianne Northfield
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...
by Dianne Northfield
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...
by Dianne Northfield
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...
by PolicyTracker
See below for the frequency assignments and plans for 87 countries. Read more...
by PolicyTracker
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...
by PolicyTracker
Recent consultations, upcoming auctions and articles highlighting the latest developments. Details on sourcing and methodology are available here. Read more...
by Richard Handford
Japan and South Korea are looking at ways to encourage greater deployment and usage of millimetre wave (26 GHz and 28 GHz) networks. Could they have found a model that other countries might follow? Read more...
by PolicyTracker
Filter awards by band, country or date and export to your computer. Read more...