Attempts by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to auction spectrum in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 2.3 GHz, 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands and to licence a wireless open-access network (WOAN) are once again in disarray. Read more...

The sale of 2.6 GHz and 3.4—3.8 GHz spectrum raised a total of NOK 3.8 billion ($447 million). Read more...

Other administrations that made spectrum available during the pandemic are also preparing to reclaim it for auction. Read more...

Wireless wholesaler Dense Air has sold its 3.6 GHz holdings in Australia to local mobile network operator TPG Telecom and acquired TPG’s 2.6 GHz frequencies. Read more...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has backed a range of measures to ensure enough spectrum will be available to meet an ambitious 5G growth target over the next two years. Read more...

Romanian regulator Ancom has unveiled the draft terms for the country’s highly anticipated 5G auction of spectrum in the 800 MHz, 2.6 GHz and 3.3—3.8 GHz bands. Read more...

The country’s minister of communications and multimedia has awarded 2 x 5 MHz in the 900 MHz band directly to local company Altel without an open tender—a year after making an identical decision, which was later revoked. Read more...

Three Ireland has launched a legal challenge to the country's planned auction of 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum. Read more...

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) and one of the country's mobile operators, Telkom, said they were open to settlement talks after the High Court blocked an auction of 5G spectrum and tender process for a wireless open-access network (WOAN). Read more...

Indonesia completed its first spectrum auction in over three years, but some might say that the recent dissolution of the country's regulator is a more significant development. Read more...