spectrum auctions

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) announced it will wait until the second half of 2019 to auction additional spectrum, giving some ground to mobile operators’ plea to delay the sale due to high levels of debt and an ongoing price…

Three of the four top US operators applied to take part in upcoming auctions of 28GHz and 24GHz spectrum, lining up alongside dozens of other participants to get a slice of bands widely eyed for 5G.

India’s mobile operators want the country’s next spectrum auctions pushed back to late 2018 or early 2019, which is at least a year later than the H2 2017 target suggested by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) pushed back its troubled spectrum auction for a second time, IT Web reported.

The Indian government has allocated spectrum to eight organisations for testing TV whitespace technology, opening up opportunities for use of unlicensed spectrum in the country without the need for auctions.

In Thailand’s ever-changing spectrum auction negotiations, the ICT ministry has finally given the go-ahead for the return of 5MHz of 1. 8MHz spectrum held by state-owned CAT Telecom to be included in the November 4G auctions.

Thailand’s telecoms regulator has given dtac, the country’s third largest mobile operator, the green light to use its 1. 8GHz spectrum, currently deployed for 2G, to expand its 4G services. Dtac runs 4G on the 2. 1GHz band and has 1.