3G (IMT-200) Spectrum Assignment Method (Source ITU Database)

3G (IMT-200) spectrum assignment method (source ITU database)

ITU/BDT Classification: Africa Country Operators assigned spectrum Please identify all 3rd Generation mobile operators Are geographic and/or What are the mechanisms for assigning spectrum for for 3G (IMT) that have been licensed population coverage 3G (IMT-2000) services? requirements included in their licenses?

Angola Yes⁴ UNITEL et MOVICEL⁴ Benin No¹ Botswana Yes Orange Botswana No Mascom Wireless Botswana Botswana Telecommunications Corporation(beMobile)

Burkina Faso Yes Airtel Yes Par attribution directe aux opérateurs Telmob existants.² Burundi Yes ONATEL, UCOM-BURUNDI, AFRICEL, Yes ACCES EQUITABLES AUX RESSOURCES¹ ECONET WIRELESS ET LACELL . La licence octroyée à HITS TELECOM a été révoquée suite au manquement dans l'exécution des obligations contenues dans le contrat de concession.

Cameroon No² Yes² Cape Verde No² Central African Rep. No Yes

Chad Congo Yes AIRTEL Yes les fréquences sont liées à l'attribution Congo (Dem. Rep.) No² de la licence² Côte d'Ivoire No² Equatorial Guinea Yes Yes Asignación de espectro por solitud² Eritrea No⁷ Ethiopia Yes Ethio Telecom, the incumbent Yes Direct Assignment¹

1 Gabon No Gambia Yes² QCell² No² Ghana Yes All the five mobile operators were Yes The spectrum was shared among the given 3G spectrum. They are existing operators¹ MTN Ghana Vodafone Airtel Millicom Ghana GLO Mobile Ghana

Guinea Yes² Cellcom & Orange Guinée² Yes² Demande écrite² Guinea-Bissau Kenya Yes Safaricom Ltd Yes It was on a first come fisrt servied but Celtel Kenya Ltd has been limited to those operators Telkom Orange Ltd who have existing mobile licenses subject to availability of spectrum² Lesotho Yes 1. Econet Telecom Lesotho No 2. Vodacom Lesotho Liberia No⁵ Madagascar No⁴ Malawi Yes² TNM and ZAIN have both been Yes² Meanwhile 3G spectrum is reserved for assigned/licensed 3G frequencies² the individual licensees only² Mali Yes² SOTELMA SA et Orange Mali SA² No² Attribution à la demande² Mauritius Yes Emtel Ltd. Yes First Come First Serve basis¹ Cellplus Communications Ltd. Mahanagar Telephone (Mauritius) Ltd.

Mozambique No⁷ Namibia Yes MTC, LEO and TELECOM Namibia Yes the mechanism are based on the Niger previous regime, CRAN is in the Nigeria Yes² CELTEL, MTN, GLOBACOM, Etisalat² No² Auction/Administrative Assignments² Rwanda Yes² MTN Rwanda Yes² COMPANY PROFILE, Business Plan,TECHNICAL APPLICATION² TIGO Rwanda

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S. Tomé & Principe No⁵ Senegal Yes Sudatel (expresso) / Sonatel Yes Seychelles Yes Airtel Seychelles & Cable and Wireless No Spectrum provided as part of the Seychelles Limited (C&WS) licensed service¹

2 Sierra Leone No³ No³ South Africa South Sudan Swaziland Yes Swazi MTN Ltd Yes The Operator has toation apply & Tanzania provide detailed network/system Togo No² Yes² Uganda Yes³ Zambia Yes¹ MTN Zambia No¹ Airtel Zambia Zamtel¹ Zimbabwe Yes Econet, Telecel and Net One Yes ITU/BDT Classification: Arab States Country Operators assigned spectrum Please identify all 3rd Generation mobile operators Are geographic and/or What are the mechanisms for assigning spectrum for for 3G (IMT) that have been licensed population coverage 3G (IMT-2000) services? requirements included in their licenses?

Algeria No⁷ Bahrain Yes² Batelco, Zain and STC Bahrain² Yes² Comoros Yes² Twama Telecom² Yes² Puis ce que type de licence utilisé est Djibouti globale, les fréquences sont données Egypt Yes² Etisalat – Vodafone - Mobinil² Yes² Auction² Iraq No² Yes² Jordan No³ Kuwait Lebanon Yes Yes Libya Mauritania Yes² Mauritel, Mattel et Chinguitel² Yes² Morocco Yes ITISSALAT AL-MAGHRIB, MEDITELECOM Yes et WANA Oman Yes Omantel / Nawras Yes Assigned Spectrum for broadband on Qatar Yes Qatar Telecom (Qtel) Q.S.C. Yes Applicationtechnology neutralto ictQATAR¹ basis¹ Vodafone Qatar (VFQ) Q.S.C. Saudi Arabia Yes 1-Saudi Telecom Company (STC) Yes 2-Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) 3-Zain Somalia

3 Sudan Yes 1- Sudani Yes Beauty contest¹ 2- Zain 3- MTN Sudan Syria Tunisia Yes Tunisie Télécom Yes Tunisiana Orange Tunisie United Arab Emirates Yes¹ ETISALAT, EITC(Du¹ Yes¹ First come first serve basis¹

Yemen ITU/BDT Classification: Asia & Pacific Country Operators assigned spectrum Please identify all 3rd Generation mobile operators Are geographic and/or What are the mechanisms for assigning spectrum for for 3G (IMT) that have been licensed population coverage 3G (IMT-2000) services? requirements included in their licenses?

Afghanistan No⁷ Australia Yes Telstra Pty Ltd, Yes SingTel Optus Pty Ltd, and VHA Pty Ltd. Bangladesh No Bhutan Yes⁵ Bhutan Telecom Ltd will soon launch 3 G Service during the first quarter of 2008.⁵ Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Yes¹ Hello AXIATA, LATELz, Viettel, First come first served basis¹ CADCOMMS, CamGSM, Mfone¹ China Yes¹ China Mobile Communications Corporation, China Telecom Corporation Limited, China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited¹

D.P.R. Korea Fiji Yes Vodafone Fiji Limited & Digicel Fiji Yes Fiji's procedural mechanism in Limited accordance to international practice.¹

4 Hong Kong, China Yes CSL Limited, China Mobile Hong Kong Yes Spectrum Auction¹ Limited, Hutchison Telephone Company Limited, Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) Limited and SmarTone Mobile Communications Limited.

India Yes DoT has auctioned 3-4 blocks of Yes Auction¹ spectrum in various service areas to private operators in the year 2010. Earlier Government operators M/s BSNL and MTNL were provided on block of 2 x 5 MHz in each of their service areas.

Indonesia Iran (I.R.) Yes² Tamin Telecom Company² Yes² Japan Yes NTT DOCOMO,INC. ,KDDI Yes Frequency allocation is based on CORPORATION, Okinawa Cellular approval of deployment plans.(Through Telephone Company, SOFTBANK Beauty Contest if demand exceeds MOBILE Corp.and eAccess Ltd. supply.)¹

Kiribati No⁵ Korea (Rep.) Yes² KT, SK Telecom, LG U+² No² Beauty Contest with Spectrum Charge² Lao P.D.R. Yes⁷ Macao, China Malaysia Yes Maxis Communications No Beauty Contest¹ Celcom Axiata DiGi Telecommunications UMobile

Maldives Yes² Dhiraagu Pvt Ltd No² Spectrum comes with the esisting Wataniya Tel,ecom Maldives² mobile licences issued² Marshall Islands No No Micronesia No² Mongolia Yes Mobicom Corporation, Skytel company, No Tender¹ Unitel company, G-mobile LLC

Myanmar Yes Myanma Posts and Telecommunications Nauru Nepal Yes

5 New Zealand Yes³ Telecom No³ Vodafone 2degrees³ Pakistan No Papua New Guinea Philippines Samoa Yes Bluesky SamoaTel Ltd Yes Lodge Applications for appropriate Digicel Samoa Ltd spectrum¹ Singapore Yes SingTel Mobile Singapore Pte Ltd, M1 Yes Auction¹ Limited, StarHub Mobile Pte Ltd Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Yes³ Yes³ Dialog Telekom Limited, Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd³ Thailand Yes¹ TOT is only operator who has been No¹ Auction is preferrably. (TOT is licensed 3G spectrum in 2100 MHz exceptional)¹ Band, since they hold those spectrum long time ago (before NTC established).

NBTC also allowed the existing operators to deploy 3G networks with 850 MHz and 900 MHz bands (in-band migration).¹

Timor-Leste Tonga No⁴ No⁴ Tuvalu Vanuatu Yes All Telecom Licences issued are unified Yes Request to Regulator. Regulator Licences. Only one mobile operator decides.¹ provide 3G Broadband since 7 December 2011.

Viet Nam Yes VNPT, Viettel, VMS, Ha Noi Telecom Yes (EVN Telecom merged into Viettel) ITU/BDT Classification: CIS Country Operators assigned spectrum Please identify all 3rd Generation mobile operators Are geographic and/or What are the mechanisms for assigning spectrum for for 3G (IMT) that have been licensed population coverage 3G (IMT-2000) services? requirements included in their licenses?

6 Armenia No⁷ Azerbaijan Yes² Azerfon LLC² Decision of Cabinet of Ministers #22 Belarus No⁵ dated 01.02.2007² Georgia Yes Magticom, Geocell No public auction¹ Kazakhstan Yes² "GSM Kazakhstan", Yes² info on www.mci.gov.kz² "Kar-Tel"² Kyrgyzstan Yes⁵ Co-tel⁵ Moldova Yes Orange Moldova, Moldcell, Yes Directly assigned equally to 2G mobile Moldtelecom operators¹ Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Yes Public Joint Stock Company Yes on competition or tender basis¹ "Ukrtelecom" Uzbekistan ITU/BDT Classification: Europe Country Operators assigned spectrum Please identify all 3rd Generation mobile operators Are geographic and/or What are the mechanisms for assigning spectrum for for 3G (IMT) that have been licensed population coverage 3G (IMT-2000) services? requirements included in their licenses?

Albania No³ Yes³ Andorra Yes STA Yes Austria Yes A1 Telekom Austria AG, T-Mobile Yes auction² Austria GmbH, Orange GmbH, Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH Belgium Yes BELGACOM S.A. Yes Pas d'attribution pour 3G en 2010² MOBISTAR KPN GROUP BELGIUM TELENET-TECTEO BIDCO

Bosnia and Yes BH Telecom (BHmobile), Telekom Yes Spectrum has been assigned to all Herzegovina Srpske (mtel), HT Mostar (Eronet) three exsisting GSM operators.¹ Bulgaria Yes Mobiltel, Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile, Yes tender² Bulgarian Telecommunications Company, Bulsatcom, 4G Com, Max Telecom.

Croatia Yes T-Hrvatski Telekom (T-Mobile), Vipnet, auction¹ Tele2.

7 Cyprus Yes (a) Cytamobile (b) MTN/ Areeba Ltd. Yes Competition process (i.e. auction)¹

Czech Republic Yes Yes Auction is being prepared.¹ Denmark Yes² Telia, TDC, Telenor, Hi3G² Yes² Spectrum is assigned through auction² Estonia Yes⁵ AS EMT Elisa AS Tele 2 Eesti AS Pro Grupp Holding OÜ⁵

Finland Yes Yes Spectrum refarming/in-band migration France Yes Orange (groupe France Télécom), SFR Yes http://www.arcep.fr/index.php?id=856and auctions² (Vivendi, Vodafone, NeufCegetel), 2¹ Bouygues Télécom (groupe industriel diversifié Bouygues), Iliad - Free

Germany Yes Telekom Deutschland GmbH, Vodafone Yes Auction¹ D2 GmbH, E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co. KG, Telefónica O2 (Germany) GmbH & Co. OHG

Greece Yes VODAFONE, COSMOTE, WIND HELLAS Yes Auction¹

Hungary Yes Magyar Telekom, Vodafone, Telenor Yes auction²

Iceland Yes Síminn Nova Vodafone Yes Ireland Yes² Vodafone Yes² auction² Telefonica O2 Meteor H3GI²

Israel Italy Yes² H3G Italia Yes² auctions² Telecom Italia Mobile Vodafone Wind²

Latvia Yes Latvijas Mobilais Telefons- www.lmt.lv, auction¹ Tele2 - www.tele2.lv, BITE Latvija - www.bite.lv.

8 Liechtenstein Yes Orange, Mobilkom, Swisscom Schweiz Yes spectrum assignment based on number of operators (4 equal blocks) on a fair Remark: Alpcom has left the mobile basis¹ market in Liechtenstein

Lithuania Yes² UAB "Omnitel", UAB "Bitė Lietuva", UAB Yes² "Tele2"² Luxembourg Yes Yes Malta Yes Licensed operators: Vodafone Malta Yes The policy relavant to 3G spectrum Limited, Mobisle Communications determined that the spectrum Limited (Go Mobile), Melita Mobile assignment mechanism to be adopted Limited. is a 'beauty contest'. However, at the time of granting spectrum, demand did Monaco Yes² Monaco Telecom² Yes² Aucune, monopole² Montenegro Yes⁵ ProMonte GSM, T-Mobile Montenegro, M-Tel⁵ Netherlands Yes⁵ KPN (incl. Telfort), T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone⁵ Norway Yes³ Poland Yes² 1. POLKOMTEL S.A. (02-676 Warszawa, Yes² ul. Postępu 3). 2. Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa Sp. z o. o. (02-222 Warszawa, Al. Jerozolimskie 181). 3. Polska Telefonia Komórkowa ”Centertel” Sp. z o.o. (01-230 Warszawa, ul. Skierniewicka 10a). 4. P4 Sp. z o. o. (02-677 Warszawa, ul. Tasmowa 70 ²

Portugal Yes http://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?cont Yes A beauty contest was the mechanism entId=1121212, these operators are for assigning the 2.1 GHz band for allowed to use the 800 MHz, 900 MHz, IMT/UMTS in 2000.In addition, Portugal 1800 MHz, 2,1 GHz and 2,6 GHz bands has implemented in 2010 the revised GSM Directive and EC Parliament Decision and the operators' Licenses

9 Romania Yes³ The 3G licences were granted for the Yes³ following operators (in the order of their acquiring of the licence): Vodafone Romania, Orange Romania, RCS&RDS, Telemobil.³

San Marino Serbia Yes Telekom srbija, telenor, vip mobile Yes Public tender² Slovak Republic Yes Telefonica O2 Slovakia, Slovak Yes Tender¹ Telekom, Orange Slovensko Slovenia Yes Public tender.² Spain Yes Telefónica Móviles, SA Vodafone, SA Yes Amena (actualmente en propiedad de France Telecom y operando bajo la marca Orange). Xfera, SA (actualmente operando bajo la marca Yoigo).

Sweden Yes⁷ Switzerland Yes SWISSCOM (UMTS), ORANGE (UMTS), Yes different mechanisms are availabe SUNRISE (UMTS) (auction, beauty contest, direct TFYR Macedonia No⁷ assignment on request)¹ Turkey Yes³ Turkcell Yes³ Vodafone Avea³ United Kingdom Yes² Yes² Auction² Vatican Yes⁶ ITU/BDT Classification: The Americas Country Operators assigned spectrum Please identify all 3rd Generation mobile operators Are geographic and/or What are the mechanisms for assigning spectrum for for 3G (IMT) that have been licensed population coverage 3G (IMT-2000) services? requirements included in their licenses?

Antigua & Barbuda No No Argentina No²

10 Bahamas Yes Bahamas Telecommunications No To be determined.¹ Company Ltd. John F. Kennedy Drive Nassau, Bahamas http://www2.btcbahamas.com/contact us/index.php

Barbados No² Belize No² Yes² Bolivia Brazil Yes CLARO Yes Competitive bidding² CTBC TIM OI NEXTEL VIVO

Canada Yes Rogers / TELUS / Bell Mobility Inc. / Yes http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt- 9193-2962 Québec Inc (Videotron) / gst.nsf/eng/h_sf01714.html¹ Globalive Wireless Data & Audio-Visual / 1380057 Alberta Ltd. (Shaw) / SaskTel / 6934579 Canada Inc. (M/C Venture Partners) / 6934242 Canada Ltd. (MTS) / Bragg Communications / Novus Wireless Inc. / Blue Canada Wireless Celluworld Inc. / Rich Telecom Corp.

Chile Yes² VTR y NEXTEL² Yes² Colombia Yes² Comunicación Celular - COMCEL Yes² selección objetiva² Telefónica Móviles Colombia - MOVISTAR Colombia Móvil - TIGO UNE Epm Telecomunicaciones - Asignación reciente de espectro.²

Costa Rica Yes Instituto Costarricences de Electricidad Yes Subasta pública¹ (ICE) AZULES Y PLATAS, S.A.(Telefónica) CLARO CR TELECOMUNICACIONES, S.A.

11 Cuba Yes ETECSA (Decreto 296-2012 del CECM)

Dominica Yes Digicel No LIME Dominican Rep. Yes En nuestro país, las licencias no están Yes Para nuevas asignaciones, Concurso asociadas a la tecnología mediante la Publico¹ cual se presta el servicio, sino que están ligadas al servicio mismo. En ese sentido, los operadores de redes móviles, están autorizados a prestar servicios por sus frecuencias, sean de 2g o 3g sin distinción. En servicio: CODETEL/CLARO y ORANGE

Ecuador Yes³ CONECEL S.A. (Porta), OTECEL S.A. Yes³ (Movistar), TELECSA S.A (ALEGRO)³ El Salvador No⁴ Se brinda una concesion que permite a No⁴ las empresas de telefonia movil brindar el servicio, no existiendo restrticcion respecto al tipo de servicio que pueden brindar empleando el espectro. Actualmente, en El Salvador se esta brindando el servicio 3G en el espectro concesionado para brindar el servicio de telefonia movil, el cual inicialmente se empleo para tecnologias 2G.⁴

Grenada Yes¹ Cable and Wireless (Lime - Grenada) Yes¹ First Come - First Serve Basis¹ Asilecom Digicel¹

Guatemala Yes Claro, Tigo y Telefónica No Guyana No⁵ Haiti Yes¹ NATCOM¹ Yes¹ Modernisation de l'opérateur historique Honduras Yes² TIGO, CLARO y DIGICEL² Yes² A/ NouvellesSolcitud de concessions parte. La concesión aux autoiza un rango de frecuencia

12 Jamaica Yes Cable and Wireless Jamaica Spectrum was assigned to the two Claro entrants by way of an auction.² Mexico Yes⁴ Telcel Yes⁴ Iusacell⁴ Nicaragua Yes ENITEL S.A. Y TELEFONÍA CELULAR DE Yes NICARAGUA S.A. Panama Yes Cables & Wireless Panama, Telefónica Yes Móviles Panama, S.A., Claro Panama, y Digicel (Panama) Paraguay Yes TELECEL (TIGO)- NUCLEO (PERSONAL) - No AMX (CLARO) PARAGUAY - HOLA PARAGUAY (VOX)

Peru Yes Viettel Perú. Yes St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia No¹ No¹ St. Vincent and the Yes Digicel (SVG) Limited Yes first come first serve² Grenadines Suriname Yes Telesur (CDMA450), Uniqa (UMTS) and Yes Businessplan¹ Digicel (UMTS Trinidad & Tobago Yes IMT 2000 spectrum has been assigned Yes Auction¹ for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) (lower 700 MHz), 2.5GHz and 3.5GHz. Mobile operators are free to use 850/1900 MHz spectrum for 3G technologies

- One operator using CDMA 2000 EVDO and WiMAX for Mobile Internet

United States Yes The 4 largest 3G operators are AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T- Mobile.

13 Uruguay Yes² Antel, Yes² procedimientos competitivos² AM Wireless Uruguay S.A., Telefónica Móviles del Uruguay S.A.²

Venezuela Yes⁴ Telcel (conocido comercialmente como Yes⁴ Movistar) y Telecomunicacjones Movilnet⁴

Year: 2012 or latest available data. ¹2011. ²2010. ³2009. ⁴2008. ⁵2007. ⁶2006. ⁷2005. Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Regulatory Database ITU ICT Eye: http://www.itu.int/icteye