New Delhi: The long-awaited 5G spectrum auction is expected to be held in May this year if the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India submits by March its recommendations on the rules regarding the sale process, according to a senior official of the telecom department.department.
Telecom Minister earlier this month, said the TR AI has informed that it will submit its recommendations for the 5G auction by March and the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) is simultaneously firming up other processes to hold the auction at the earliest.
"TR AI has indicated that they will send it (recommendations) by March. Thereafter, it will take us a month to make a decision around it," Telecom Secretary K Rajaraman told PTI.
Earlier, the government has taken time of 60-120 days to start the bidding rounds in the auction after receiving recommendations from TR AI on spectrum auction.
Rajaraman said it will take the DOT two months to start the auction from the day it gets recommendations from the TR AI.
According to the DOT, 5G is expected to deliver download speed 10 times faster than 4G services. As per the process, DOT seeks reference from the TR AI on spectrum price, method for allocating it, block size of spectrum, payments terms and conditions, among others.
The TR AI holds consultation with the industry and other stakeholders and then submits recommendations to the DOT.
As per the current practice, the apex decision-making body at the DOT, the Digital Communications Commission (formerly the Telecom Commission) takes the decision on TR AI recommendations and then approaches the Cabinet for the final approval. Rajaraman said that the DOT has already selected MSTC as the auctioneer for the upcoming auction.
TR AI has given participants in 5G spectrum consultation to submit their additional comments by February 15 after which it will review and come up with recommendations. Telecom operators have demanded up to 95 per cent cut in the spectrum frequency band price. Both telecom and satellite players are at loggerheads with each other on rules for the 5G spectrum auction.5G New Radio (NR) has been designed to fully support Massive MIMO as a native technology from the start. The vastly increased coverage, capacity and user throughput that Massive MIMO provides has quickly made it a natural and essential component of cellular network deployments. Ericsson CTO Erik on the role of Massive MIMO in 5G.
Massive MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) technology has been a core component of 5G New Radio from the first release. Comprised of several multi-antenna techniques, Massive MIMO unlocks the full potential of new spectrum, delivering significant increases in network coverage, capacity and user throughput without the need for site denazification.
This ETR article explores the full range of 5G Massive MIMO radio and feature options that communication service providers can use to boost spectral efficiency. The authors also provide a set of guiding principles to simplify the process of selecting the most cost-efficient radio solution in any given scenario.5G New Radio (NR) has been designed to fully support Massive MIMO as a native technology from the start. The vastly increased coverage, capacity and user throughput that Massive MIMO provides has quickly made it a natural and essential component of cellular network deployments.
Massive MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) radios are the leading radio solution for new 5G deployments on mid-band TDD spectrum. The ability to use a larger number of radio chains – 16-64, for example, compared with the 2-8 typically used in conventional radio solutions – makes it possible for communication service providers (CSPS) to benefit significantly from multi-antenna techniques.
Although Massive MIMO is still a relatively new technology – the term was first coined in academia about a decade ago, with the first commercial solutions hitting the market about five years later – the technology has matured rapidly, enabling the creation of cost-efficient solutions that are both small and light in weight. Most of the Massive MIMO solutions on the market today have already gone through multiple hardware generations, often with optimized application-specific integrated circuits for beam forming and physical layer processing. They are available in a multitude of different models optimized for a wide variety of deployment scenarios.
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