Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia has announced that it has extended its contract with A1 Telekom Austria Group to provide 5G services to Bulgaria, Serbia and Slovenia.
News outside of the EU
Huawei reports biggest-ever revenue drop
Huawei has reported its largest ever revenue drop in the first half of 2021.
Canada completed its 3.5GHz 5G auction
The auction raised 8.9 billion CAD (6 billion EUR) after 103 rounds of bidding
First Indonesian operators launched commercial 5G services
Telkomsel and Indosat Ooredoo launched 5G services in June
Canada begins 3.5GHz spectrum auction
The government’s Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) department selling off 200 MHz of spectrum and 1,504 licenses in 172 service areas
26 GHz auction in Australia raised 415.6 million EUR
The ACMA plans to auction 900 MHz spectrum for 5G later in 2021.
Ofcom announces results of 700 MHz and 3.6-3.8 GHz auction’s principal stage
EE and O2/Telefonica were the largest spenders with bids above 448 million GBP (523.6 million EUR)
Chile completes first 5G spectrum auction in Latin America
1800 MHz in the 700 MHz, the AWS, the 3.5 GHz and the 26 GHz frequencies collected globally 327.6 billion CLP (376.9 million EUR)
Spectrum auction raised 778 billion INR (9 billion EUR) in India, but 700MHz spectrum was left unsold for second time
India’s Department of Telecommunications put up for sale a total of 2,308 MHz of airwaves across seven bands
Highly coveted US auction for 3.7 GHz spectrum reached 81.1 billion USD after 2 months
The FCC considers auctioning 2.5 GHz and 3.45 GHz bands later in 2021
