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The Office of the Communications Authority OFCA today July 19 published the information memoranda for the auctions of radio spectrum in the 850900 MHz 23 GHz and 67 GHz bands and invited interested parties to submit applications.
A spokesperson for OFCA said The Communications Authority CA and the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development SCED issued joint statements in May last year and March this year announcing the decisions to assign a total of 510 MHz of spectrum in the aforementioned bands through auction within this year for the provision of public mobile services including the fifth generation 5G services The assignment will further promote the development of 5G services in terms of network capacity service speed and coverage.
The CA will conduct the auction of 110 MHz of reassigned spectrum in the 850900 MHz and 23 GHz bands on November 11 followed by the auction of 400 MHz of new spectrum in the 67 GHz band on November 25 The spectrum will be assigned to the successful bidders under unified carrier licences with a validity period of 15 years Parties interested in participating in the auctions may submit their applications to OFCA on September 19 and 20.
The SCED has set the auction reserve prices for the use of the aforementioned spectrum viz 4 million per MHz for the 850900 MHz and the 23 GHz bands and 2 million per MHz for the 67 GHz band The actual amount of spectrum utilization fees payable will be determined through the respective auctions.
The spokesperson added To prevent overconcentration of spectrum holdings by a single spectrum assignee the CA has set caps on the amount of spectrum that can be acquired by each assignee in the respective bands which are 10 MHz for the 850900 MHz band 50 MHz for the 23 GHz band and 140 MHz for the 67 GHz band.
