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(Vodafone Idea), Japan (NTT Docomo,
Rakuten) and the US (DISH). Several
other telecommunications groups,
including MTN, Orange, Telefonica, and
Vodafone, have carried out tests and
small rural deployments across different
continents.
Although open RAN revenues are growing
rapidly by some estimates, they still
represent a very small proportion of the
global RAN market. It remains unclear
whether the open RAN architecture will
deliver on the promises of:
• increasing competition in the market for
network equipment;
• reducing the total cost of ownership of
mobile networks; and
• increasing security of communications.

Cullen International Report on Americas Spectrum Profiles

Governments in the Americas are research, as of August 2022, countries bands and mmWave bands.
responding to increasing demand by in the Americas region have assigned an Ten other countries have assigned more
allocating and awarding more spectrum to average of 497.5 MHz in spectrum below mobile spectrum than the regional average:
IMT services. 6 GHz, to be exploited for mobile services. Peru, Mexico, Chile, Dominican Republic,
Awards ongoing in 2022 include: The USA, Brazil and Canada have assigned Costa Rica, Uruguay and Colombia. Near-
• In the USA, the FCC launched auction the most spectrum for mobile services in ly all of these countries held auctions be-
108 in July 2022 to award 117.5 MHz in the region, with the USA having assigned tween 2020 and 2021, with Peru planning a
the 2.6 GHz band (2496-2690 MHz) the largest amount of spectrum in the mid– new auction in 2022.
• In June 2022, Argentina published the
rules to assign on demand up to 2x30
MHz of spectrum in the 2.6 GHz band;
and
• Canada is holding a consultation related
to a future award of the mmWave bands
(26 GHz, 28 GHz and 38 GHz) to support
5G services and also approved rules to
auction 250 MHz in the 3.8 GHz band in
October 2023.
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Peru
also announced spectrum awards which
are planned for 2022 and 2023, after being
postponed from previous years. Most of
the awards include the mid-band spectrum.
According to Cullen International’s

New-Generation Satellite EUTELSAT KONNECT

VHTS Built by Thales Alenia Space Heading to
Kourou Launch Site

EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS satellite, the ETL) is now on its way to Europe’s Space- VHTS, a very high throughput satellite built
state-of-the-art and largest satellite ever port in Kourou, French Guiana, by boat, for a by Thales Alenia Space, is to deliver high-
put into orbit by international operator Eu- launch planned 6 September 2022 on board speed broadband and mobile connectivity
telsat Communications (Euronext Paris: an Ariane 5 rocket. EUTELSAT KONNECT across Europe. With a Ka-band capacity of

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