America Móvil provides wireless and fixed communications services in 18 countries in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe, and had 300 million wireless subscribers as of December 2022 according to its Q4 2022 report. Read more...

Reliance Jio Infocomm, one of the many businesses of Reliance Industries, is a market leader in mobile communications. It claims to have India's largest 4G network and the nation's only "true 5G" service, which it is rapidly rolling out across the country. Read more...

Telefónica Group continues to upgrade its 4G and 5G networks and remains a strong proponent of Open RAN. It had 292 million mobile customers at the end of 2022 and operates in European and Latin American countries. It is interested in several potential or upcoming spectrum auctions. Read more...

French network operator and digital services provider Orange describes its purpose as giving everyone "the keys to a responsible digital world". It operates in 26 countries and had 287 million customers (including 242 million mobile customers) at the end of 2022, according to its 2022 universal registration document. Its 4G… Read more...

Headquartered in New Delhi, Bharti Airtel has more than 500 million customers in 17 countries across South Asia and Africa. It is focused on the rapid deployment of its 5G network and has accumulated so much spectrum that it says it will not need to get any more for many… Read more...

Despite the lack of clarity surrounding mmWave use cases and unproven business models, regulators and industry are examining a range of new approaches to mmWave spectrum sharing. Three case studies based on the work of Ofcom in the UK, Canada’s ISED and Qualcomm inform this research note, which outlines a… Read more...

After decades of developing and operating its geosynchronous orbit-based satellite services business, Telesat has commenced the development of a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites and integrated terrestrial infrastructure known as Telesat Lightspeed. Ka-band spectrum is of particular importance to both Telesat’s GEO and LEO programs. Read more...

In 2022, communications vendors continue to lobby for licensed spectrum for 5G and indeed, 6G, albeit with nuances in their prioritisation of bands. The greatest divergence of vendor positions is in relation to the licensing status of 6 GHz spectrum. Vendors’ views on dedicated spectrum for IoT/private networks also vary. Read more...

Nokia prioritises harmonized spectrum for 5G and beyond and argues that regulatory decisions on the upper 6 GHz band should be deferred until after WRC-23. It applauds ITU identification of mmWave bands at 26 GHz, 40 GHz and 66 GHz for IMT and the ongoing study of mid bands in… Read more...

Qualcomm views the 700 MHz, 2.6 GHz, 3.5 GHz, 3.8-4.2 GHz and 26 GHz bands as key 5G bands, and sees L-band, 4.8 GHz, 40 GHz, 47.2-48.2 GHz and 66-71 GHz additional bands for the technology. Qualcomm regards 5G and Wi-Fi networks as complementary, requiring both licensed and unlicensed spectrum… Read more...