A few weeks ago, the industry trade body representing the interests of the world’s mobile operator community, the GSMA, released a report looking at the impact of global regulators offering enterprises spectrum for the creation of private 4G and 5G networks. So called ‘set aside’ spectrum, according to the European 5G Observatory, is now available, or will be made available, to enterprises in the U.S., UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, Australia and Hong Kong. Regulators in these countries have a clear mandate to distribute radio spectrum as widely as possible, partly to raise revenue via auctions, but also to promote broadscale adoption of mobile broadband technology – a central driver of GDP for global economies.
