{"id":18452,"date":"2019-04-18T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=18452"},"modified":"2019-04-18T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:14:49","slug":"ofcom-uk-tweaks-3-4-3-6ghz-licenses-to-help-5g-mobile-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/04\/ofcom-uk-tweaks-3-4-3-6ghz-licenses-to-help-5g-mobile-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom UK Tweaks 3.4-3.6GHz Licenses to Help 5G Mobile Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK telecoms regulator has provisionally proposed to accept a request by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> to vary a number of spectrum access licenses for the 3.4GHz, 3.5GHz and 3.6GHz bands in order to facilitate new Active Antenna Systems (AAS), which could help the future roll-out of ultrafast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> mobile broadband networks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The proposed change would remove an obligation on the licensees that has been effectively redundant since changes were made to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a>&#8217;s (Hutchison\/UK Broadband) 3.6GHz licence at the end of 2018 (i.e. giving them access to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/12\/three-uk-secure-key-change-to-boost-5g-wireless-broadband-plans.html\">100MHz block of contiguous spectrum<\/a>) and is also consistent with the European Union&#8217;s (EU) Harmonisation Decision.<\/p>\n<p>As a technology AAS has already been used with some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/3g\">3G<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> networks, although it&#8217;s certainly best suited to the design of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> networks, where its flexible radiation pattern control can help adapt to the changing situations in a mobile network.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The licence variations would:<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Add to the special conditions relating to Radio Equipment to accommodate new total radiated power (TRP) in-block and out-of -block power limits for active antenna base stations (AAS).<\/p>\n<p>2) Raise the terminal power limits from 25 dBm to 28 dBm.<\/p>\n<p>3) Remove the additional band edge requirement above 3605 MHz and insert a new requirement at 3800 MHz and above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>, the practical effect of AAS for consumers could be a higher quality of service in busy areas once a significant number of users have devices which support the 3.4-3.8GHz band(s). This is because AAS helps to enable Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO), which can &#8220;<em>increase the capacity of the radio access network in busy areas<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"width: 100%; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2019-article-illustrations\/active_antenna_system_5g.jpg\" alt=\"active antenna system 5g\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>This technology has the potential to significantly increase the spectral efficiency and network capacity through the use of beamforming (focusing radio energy in a specific direction), spatial multiplexing (re-using frequencies to send data to different users) and other techniques which take advantage of the location of people and their phones<\/em>,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0025\/144880\/notice-proposal-vary-3.4-ghz-radio-spectrum-licences.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ofcom&#8217;s consultation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"width: 100%; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2019-article-illustrations\/ofcom_license_variations_3-6_to_3-8ghz.png\" alt=\"ofcom license variations 3.4 to 3.6GHz\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK telecoms regulator has provisionally proposed to accept a request by Three UK, EE, O2 and Vodafone to vary a number of spectrum access licenses for the 3.4GHz, 3.5GHz and 3.6GHz bands in order to facilitate new Active Antenna Systems (AAS), which could help the future roll-out of ultrafast 5G mobile broadband networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[406,405,60,32,36,63,96],"class_list":["post-18452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-5g","tag-ee","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-three-uk","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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