Canada recently awarded the 600 MHz band, and plans to continue its efforts to boost competition in its mobile market in a forthcoming C-Band auction. Read more...

The world’s biggest economy is working to maintain its lead on 5G by assigning vast amounts of the mmWave spectrum, and will try to release a portion of the 3.7 – 4.2 GHz band. Read more...

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...

Telefonica Group has strongly criticised spectrum auction designs in various countries, claiming that any focus by regulators beyond efficient spectrum allocation and maintaining strong mobile competition risks hampering 5G rollout. Its 5G initiatives include projects for the banking sector, connected cars and TV broadcasting. Read more...

The Vodafone Group wants to "build a digital society that enhances socio-economic progress, embraces everyone and does not come at the cost of our planet," according to its 2019 annual report. It plans to increase its leadership in 4G to create Europe's biggest 5G network, and to focus its 5G efforts… Read more...

US and Mexican operator AT&T says it's the first US company to introduce mobile 5G service in parts of several cities. That deployment is scheduled to expand nationwide by 2020 as the company continues to invest heavily in 5G. Current spectrum priorities include the sub- l GHz bands, as well… Read more...