by Jonathan Watson
PolicyTracker’s updated private networks benchmark includes 70 nations, up from 54 in September 2024 and 40 in mid-2023. Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
Nations across Europe represent 50% of the countries included in PolicyTracker’s updated Private networks benchmark, including nine new nations. There is a particular focus in the region on assigning private spectrum resources in the 3.3-4-2 GHz and 26 GHz ranges. In the region, 41% of nations plan to assign between… Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
While trailing other regions of the world, nations in Africa are progressively developing policy frameworks for the assignment of spectrum for use by private networks. PolicyTracker’s updated private networks benchmark now includes eight countries in the region, up from four at the end of 2024. Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
PolicyTracker’s updated private networks benchmark includes 12 nations in the Asia Pacific region, along with six nations in the Middle East, collectively representing 24% of all countries included in the benchmark. Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
PolicyTracker’s private network benchmark now includes nine countries in the Americas that have assigned or plan to assign spectrum for use by private networks, representing 13% of all benchmark countries. Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
As a growing number of nations around the world continue to implement policy frameworks to assign spectrum for use by private networks, there is wide diversity and hence fragmentation in terms of both frequency band and sub-band targets and bandwidth amounts that are assigned and planned in different countries. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Beauty contests often end up in the courts but auctions don't, so the conventional wisdom goes. But looking more closely we find that legal action over auctions is a fairly frequent occurrence. Read more...
by Cameron Hill
The auction saw three operators pay $2.945 billion for 11 licences across the two 5G bands. Read more...
by Richard Haas
Despite earlier indications to the contrary, the latest version of the standard will largely target the same unlicensed spectrum bands as previous generations. Read more...