The US regulator's December open meeting will include a vote on far-reaching reforms of the 5.9 GHz band. Read more...

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A key objective of South Korea’s recent spectrum policy culminated in the symbolic launch of commercial 5G mobile services by the country’s three operators simultaneously on the same day (3 April). A national effort between government and industry was seen to bear fruit, as the country narrowly beat the US… Read more...

China has a tightly organised, top-down approach to spectrum in which the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) uses the allocation of radio frequencies as a tool to engineer the marketplace Read more...

NTT DOCOMO, which in April 2019 was assigned spectrum in Japan in 3.7 GHz, 4.5 GHz and 28 GHz, remains a 5G pioneer.  DOCOMO now services over 78 million mobile customers in Japan, and continues to build out its 4G LTE network. Read more...

Granted a 5G commercial licence in June 2019, China Mobile is now pushing to speed development of 5G services in its highly competitive home market. As of August 2019, it had 935 million mobile customers, with 734 million on 4G. Read more...

French carrier Orange's 4G reach makes it the leading operator in terms of customers in "seven of our eight operating countries in Europe," with 207 million mobile customers worldwide, according to its 2018 annual report. It aims to maintain that same position with its 5G network, building on its 2015… Read more...

The Danish Energy Agency has issued a consultation regarding the possibility of making spectrum available for private 5G networks, particularly in the 3.5 GHz band. The agency will also host a meeting at its offices in Copenhagen to discuss the topic on December 13. Responses to the consultation must be… Read more...

The possibility of acquiring their own localised 5G spectrum is attracting the attention of well-known Japanese companies, although not solely from the sector one might expect.  Read more...

"5G local area networks are the way forward," German firm Bosch said in announcing that it has applied to the regulator BNetzA for newly created private spectrum licences. Two other companies have already won licences.  Read more...