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Sweden’s regulator PTS has revealed more details on two upcoming spectrum auctions, which will assign spectrum for local use in the 3.5 and 26 GHz bands. 

Participants at the virtual 6G Wireless Summit last month shared insights on what 6G might look like. They also highlighted the importance of influencing the standardisation process.

An attempt to introduce a third mobile operator in Jamaica has descended into lawsuits, police raids and accusations of foul play.

Asian governments need to delicense the 6 GHz, 60 GHz and 70 GHz bands for Wi-Fi and backhaul as a priority, said Bharat Bhatia, president of ITU-APT Foundation of India,…

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Ligado Networks' application to roll out a low-power terrestrial network in the L-band to support 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) services. 

Fake news stories and rumours claiming that 5G caused the COVID-19 outbreak have made the mobile sector a scapegoat for the ongoing crisis. Could this have been prevented?

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to make 1200 MHz of spectrum available in the 6 GHz band for unlicensed services.

South Africa, which has struggled to award spectrum in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 2.3 GHz, 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands, has now made it available on a temporary…

In the second of a series of webinars organised by PolicyTracker on the spectrum response to COVID-19, experts warned that relief measures such as provisional spectrum allocations may prove counterproductive. 

Japanese manufacturer Fujitsu received the country’s first commercial local 5G licence, with others already following. 

The use of spectrum auctions was once a black-and-white issue but is now more shades of grey. For over a decade auctions have been the predominant method of assigning spectrum…

Hungarian regulator NMHH has assigned three licences for 5G spectrum in the 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 3.6 GHz bands to Magyar Telekom, Telenor and Vodafone. 

Ethiopia’s telecoms sector was to undergo a major liberalisation early this year, but the process has now been delayed and mobile operators are preparing for an uncertain future. 

The coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to pose an existential threat to the mobile sector or require changes in spectrum regulation, speakers said at a 3 April PolicyTracker webinar on the…

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