E-Band and V-Band - Survey on status of worldwide regulation
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E-Band country by country overview
The following picture provides an overview of the E-Band situation worldwide as reported in the
attached database [Appendix A]. The places where E-Band is today open for fixed services is indicated in
green, in red the places where this band is closed today and in blue the places where the use of E-Band
is open, but under review.
Green - > Open
Red - > Closed
Blue - > Under Review
Grey - > No Information
Figure 12: E-Band worldwide situation
Considering the 78 cases mapped in our survey, we have:
66 cases open
7 cases closed
6 cases under review
Considering 72 cases obtained aggregating the open cases (66) and the cases under discussion (6) we
observed that 42 cases (58,3%) have adopted the whole band, 71-76 and 81-86 GHz, while only 8 cases
(11,1%) have adopted a narrow frequency band.
Among these last 8 cases, 6 cases belong to ITU region 1 and have adopted the portion 74-76 & 84-86
GHz only, most likely because in ITU region 1 the rest of the band, 71-74 & 81-84 GHz, could be reserved
for military use (NATO) and then a “Defence systems Harmonised military band” (see: ECA table [40]).
Practically, the spectrum available is never less than 2 GHz. We can likely assume that almost all the
cases without a specific mention of frequency band limits are adopting the whole band.
Most of the cases are using a channel arrangement based on 250 MHz channels, with a few cases open
to go below, allowing to use 62.5 and 125 MHz segmentation. Practically in all cases a certain level of
