Japan's telecoms ministry has awarded spectrum to the country's three established mobile operators—NTT Docomo, KDDI and SoftBank—along with the recent new entrant Rakuten.  Read more...

ACMA will combine traditional spectrum awards for the mobile industry with licensing that encourages local networks as well as ad hoc deployments on private premises in its assignment of the 26 GHz band for 5G.  Read more...

Japan’s forthcoming spectrum award will be the first for 5G decided by a beauty contest rather than an auction. This is not the only thing that makes it unusual.  Read more...

In the world’s second auction for the mmWave 5G frequencies, the 28 GHz band achieved more than double the value seen in Korea last year. Read more...

Millimetre wave (mmWave) frequencies can be far more resilient than the industry generally believes, a key Samsung executive has claimed. Read more...

US regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided at its monthly open meeting to consult on its plans to auction spectrum in the 24 GHz band this November alongside licences for the 28 GHz band in areas where the band has not yet been awarded. Read more...

Operators from countries such as South Korea, Japan and the US attended a meeting held by a group that backs 28 GHz for the first time. Mexico’s regulator was also represented. Read more...

The two mobile operators so far involved in UK network infrastructure firm Arqiva's project are understood to be focusing on providing extra capacity rather than new services. Read more...

Further trials in the 3.7 GHz band in Germany are on the way, says chief technology and innovation officer Claudia Nemat. Read more...

  Ofcom also supports truncating the 66-76 GHz band to focus on 66-71 GHz for international 5G study and setting the same technical conditions for the three bands falling within 37-43.5 GHz. Read more...