E-Band and V-Band - Survey on status of worldwide regulation
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channel aggregation, nx250 MHz is allowed. In some places, n is limited to 2 and in some others limited
to 8. In some cases the channel arrangement is not defined, leaving room to believe that 250MHz and
nx250 MHz are allowed.
Regarding FDD and TDD, we can observe that FDD seems always permitted while TDD not allowed in at
least 16 cases.
The situation, in terms of licensing methods, is very varied and not uniform at all. The most common
regulation seems to be the conventional link-by-link coordination. It may be worth pointing out here
that the situation should be closer to a light licensed regime since the results obtained have difficulties
in discriminating between “light licensing” and “link by link” cases. Two special cases with a double
regime are also reported.
In some other countries, like the US, UK, Australia and others, the E-Band is regulated with a “light-
licensing” regime: self-coordinated, first-come-first-served basis with a register maintained by spectrum
authority (i.e.: Appendix [E]). In this case, a low level fee is requested. In other countries, like Mexico
and Columbia, the E-Band can be seen as a sort of licensing exception, so there is no coordination and
usually fees are not requested.
This is the whole picture:
33 cases adopting link by link regime
1 case adopting Block assignment
8 cases with light licensing
5 cases where this band is unlicensed
3 cases with a sort of double regime, link by link and per Block
4 cases where the licensed aspect is not clearly defined and then cannot be mapped inside a
specific case
17 cases where the licence status is unknown.
Just to provide a fair comparison among these cases, and in order to provide a first feeling regarding
spectrum fees, we have collected the fees due for a specific case: a 250 MHz channel per one year and
where this point impacts, for 1 Km.