Spectrum sharing dossier updated for 2025

The first Research Note (RN) provides an overview of these scenarios. The second one examines sharing frameworks that enable third-party access to unused licensed spectrum. Countries where this is going include the UK, Australia and several nations in the Americas. In the UK, for example, the regulator has established local access licences that allow third party users to access spectrum licensed to mobile network operators (MNOs) in areas where operators are not using it fully.

The third RN looks to IMT sharing of encumbered (i.e. already being used) spectrum in the lead-up to WRC-27, which will consider spectrum between 4 GHz and 15 GHz for IMTInternational Mobile Telecommunications (I… identifications. The prospects for IMT sharing of the bands are currently uncertain, with different stakeholders having different views on how best to allocate the bands. Spectrum needs also vary from region to region.

RN four provides an overview of hybrid spectrum-sharing proposals related to the upper 6 GHz band and sharing between terrestrial networks and non-terrestrial networksNon-terrestrial Networks (NTN) are wireles…, while the fifth one examines unlicensed and lightly licensed shared access frameworks for local licences, unlicensed 6 GHz use and low-power indoor-only operations.

The sixth RN considers the limitations of current sharing approaches and spectrum sharing challenges, and the seventh examines the prospects for the development of more dynamic spectrum sharing frameworks and more generalised sharing solutions.

Two further RNs, to be added later, will updatel the current status of the shared US CBRS band in terms of regulatory developments and take-up.

The updated Spectrum Sharing Dossier is now available to Spectrum Research Service subscribers.