E-Band and V-Band - Survey on status of worldwide regulation
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V-Band country by country overview
This review covers 61 countries, with details reported in the attached database [Appendix A]. Although a
considerable number of countries have opened the new wide continuous part of the band, covering at
least the 59-63 GHz portion, the situation today is still not well harmonized with many band variations
as well as fragmentation into sub-bands.
Figure 5: Global implementation of V-Band per country
More than 15 different sub-bands, covering 83 different cases in total, were found in the survey and are
summarized in the database snapshot in Figure 7 and in Appendix B - Table 4.
The fragmented situation today can be attributed to:
Historical reasons where many countries have not yet adopted the wide band regulations that
include the previously excluded 59-64 GHz portion;
Sharing reasons where in some countries segments of the band are excluded due to concerns for
other primary services. For example in some countries the 63-64 GHz portion is excluded due to
ITS;
Regulatory concerns where the band in some countries is split into segments with different
regulations. For example, concerns can be due to the much lower propagation loss in the 64-66
GHz part, or due to different sharing conditions.
Global implementation of V-band
Countries with band open but details unknown
Countries where no part of the band is open
Countries with only new wide band - more than 4 GHz
Countries with at least one old band and a new wide
band
Countries with only, at least, one of the old bands
Countries with other band fragmentations