Chile’s supreme court has upheld the legality of the country’s new national spectrum plan based on caps with dynamic limits, reports business daily Diario Financiero. In its ruling, the court backed a proposal submitted last year by telecommunications regulator Subtel to set spectrum caps per operator per band as opposed to a total amount per operator. In a tweet, Subtel head and telecommunications undersecretary Pamela Gidi said the judgment “lays the foundations for the 5G network tender”, the basis of which will be announced in a few days.
Under Subtel’s plan, there will be a limit of 32 percent per operator in sub-1GHz bands, a limit of 30 percent in the 1-3GHz range, 30 percent in the 3-6GHz range and 25 percent in the 24GHz-plus millimeter wavers. The proposal includes a minimum of 50MHz of frequencies in the sub-1GHz bands, 60MHz limit in the 1-3GHz bands, 80GHz in the 3.4-3.8GHz range and 200MHz in the 27.5-28.35GHz bands.
The supreme court added that all operators who apply for a block are required to “commit to an effective and efficient use plan for the entire duration of the respective concession”.
