📋 Tender Overview
Cleaning of the 3.5 GHz band has already been carried out in 15 Brazilian municipalities. This is the second stage of the 5G installation process in the country after the activation of the technology in all Brazilian capitals. For this reason this Wednesday 14th in a meeting of the Monitoring Group for the Implementation of Solutions for Interference Problems in the 3625 to 3700 MHz band Gaispi of which the Ministry of Communications MCom is a member it was agreed that providers that acquired lots in the Auction for these cities will be able to request the National Telecommunications Agency Anatel to license 5G stations.Of the 15 cities six have a population of over 500000 inhabitants and would have the lane released as early as January 1st. They are Ananindeua PA Aparecida de Goinia GO Caxias do Sul RS Jaboato dos Guararapes PE Joinville SC and Londrina PR. The other nine are smaller municipalities but which are part of metropolitan regions or are close to larger municipalities Diadema SP Mesquita RJ Nilpolis RJ Olinda PE Paulista PE So Caetano do Sul SP So Francisco do Sul SC So Joo de Meriti RJ and So Jos SC.For the other 20 cities with more than 500000 inhabitants the use of the lane will be allowed from January 1st with no need for a new decision by Gaispi.The anticipation of the release was possible because the 3.5 GHz Band Management Entity EAF has already started migrating the reception of the open and free television signal through satellite dishes in the C band to the Ku band and has completed the necessary actions for vacating this band by Fixed Satellite Service FSS systems having installed filters to mitigate interference in all impacted FSS stations. So far 11500 families that are part of the Single Registry for Social Programs have already exchanged their satellite dish kits across the country.IMPLEMENTATION - The release of the band does not imply the immediate installation of 5G networks in the locations since according to the notice commitments are scheduled to expire in 2025. The anticipated installation of 5G stations in these cities depends on planning and interest of each provider.
