Over 70% of European nations included in the benchmark use administrative procedures to implement licence renewals and extensions. The renewal procedures across the region are used extensively to modify or add new coverage commitments, in some cases in exchange for waived or discounted upfront payments for spectrum grants. Read more...

Regulators in Asia have used both auctions and administrative procedures to renew expiring spectrum licences. Across the nations in the region included in the benchmark, three have used a combination of both methods. The typical approach to licence renewals through auctions adopted in Asia is the simultaneous award of one… Read more...

Most nations in Asia included in the benchmark have used administrative procedures to either renew or extend spectrum licences upon their expiry. The typical administrative approach adopted by regulators in the region is the simultaneous award of one or more bands across multiple operators. Read more...

Nations across the Americas use administrative procedures to renew expiring spectrum licences. Read more...

Across Africa, regulators typically renew or extend individual mobile network operator (MNO) licences on a case-by-case basis, commonly renewing spectrum rights across several bands in a single renewal format. Several regulators in the region have also used renewal processes to convert multiple legacy licences to a Unified Licensing Framework. Read more...

Nations in the Middle East use administrative procedures to renew or extend expiring spectrum licences. Read more...

Spain has the highest proportion of 5G standalone in Europe, according to the Mobile Deployment Database. Download our new white paper to see the detailed analysis. Read more...

At a recent London event, researchers and experts called for different telecom protocols to support the robots of the future. Read more...

European administrations meeting in Athens this week are split on whether the 2031 World Radiocommunication Conference should look again at the 470–694 MHz band. At the same time, countries are discussing a growing list of new satellite agenda items, from direct-to-device above 3 GHz to space-based solar power. Read more...

Vietnam has reassigned expiring 2G spectrum licences in the 900 MHz band via auction for a total of $124 million, although the award is not as straightforward as it first appears. Read more...