3.9G Bands Are Going to Be Allocated with Command and Control

Japanese government is going to allocate the "3.9G mobile" licenses of 1.5 GHz band to four incumbents with command and control.

They divide 45 MHz to four bands, 10MHz*3 + 15MHz, because there are four incumbents in Japan, NTT docomo, KDDI, SoftBank, and e-Mobile. Mobile terminal manufacturers are concerned because the performance of Long-Term Evolution, the technology which is likely to be the standard of 3.9G, is maximized when it is used in 20 MHz. Consumers are also concerned because the four bands would be allocated to four incumbents for free even without beauty contests.

Once the MIC, the counterpart of the FCC, argued that there should be two or three operators in such a narrow area. But it changed mind suddenly. It's a shame that the MIC is still sticking to "spectrum socialism" that most OECD countries abandoned ten years ago.

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