by Toby Youell
The Swedish regulator, the PTS, has issued a consultation on a proposed coordination agreement with the Finnish regulator for mobile services in the 2.3 GHz band. The PTS will receive comments on the proposal until June 17. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Swedish regulator, the PTS, has issued a consultation on its plans to award the 2.3 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands. The document sets out decisions that would provide for wide bandwidths for 5G services in these bands, and would protect competition. In all, the PTS intends to award national… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Slovenian regulator, AKOS, has issued a consultation on its spectrum management strategy for the next few years. Its proposals include an intention to make a decision by June 2020 with respect to awarding the 700 MHz, 1400 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz, 3.4 – 3.8 GHz, and 26 GHz… Read more...
by Toby Youell
ANATEL, Brazil's regulator, said in a Congressional hearing that it plans to issue a consultation on its planned 5G auction in the near future. The auction, scheduled for Q1 2020, will include the 700 MHz, 2.3 GHz, 3.4 - 3.6 GHz, and 26 GHz bands. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Peruvian Ministry of Transport and Communications is consulting on its proposals to rescind and then auction spectrum in the 2.3 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands. It proposes to award 30 MHz of 2.3 GHz band spectrum nationwide, raising around $85 million. In the 2.6 GHz band, it proposes to… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Greek regulator, the EETT, plans to consult on making available the 2.3 GHz band for mobile services. The consultation is likely to be issued towards the end of the year, according to the EETT's Review of Frequency Bands for the Deployment of 5G Networks document. The consultation will take into… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Icelandic Post and Telecommunications Agency has issued a discussion document on its telecoms policy for a public consultation. The document, which is available here (in Icelandic), includes questions on its policies with respect to various frequency bands. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Swedish communications regulator, the PTS, is consulting on a number of proposals related to its planned auction of the 2.3 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands. This includes establishing a cap of 120 MHz per operator in the 3.5 GHz band, using a clock auction format, and dividing into the… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on several proposals that would allow greater spectrum sharing. This includes allowing companies to make simple requests to Ofcom for spectrum access within specific locations across three bands: DECT Guard Band (1781.7 - 1785 MHz + 1876.7 - 1880 MHz), 2390… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Peru's Ministry of Transport and Communications has issued a consultation on proposed spectrum caps. The caps would prevent a single entity from holding more than 140 MHz of low-band spectrum and more than 120 MHz of mid-band spectrum. Low-band spectrum is defined as the 450 MHz, 700 MHz, 800 MHz,… Read more...