Kuwait’s Mobile Providers Get OK For 4G LTE Services

Zain, VIVA and Wataniya Telecom will operate the LTE system via their respective frequencies within the range of band 3 1800 MHz against a license fee of KD 250.000 to be paid in advance. That is decision of Ministry ot Communications. 

Minister also noted that he has also adopted a decree to realign the frequency range for mobile companies of band 8, 900 MHz and to increase the frequencies allocated for each of Wataniya Telecom and VIVA to 10 MHz, and to decrease that of Zain to 14 MHz.

The decision ensures equitable distribution of the frequencies among the companies and puts an end to Zain’s dominance of the frequencies in this regard, due to the fact that the company was the first mobile operator in Kuwait. 

//arabtimesonline.com  

All LTE band 3 1800 MHz commercial systems worldwide 

UE for band 3 networks  

Vodafone, O2 could launch LTE in 900 MHz band

UK regulator Ofcom has said that there is nothing stopping EE’s rivals, such as Vodafone and O2, from putting in an application to alter their 900 MHz spectrum licence for LTE usage. A ruling in early 2011 meant that all operators are now free to use their 2G spectrum for 3G services, so extension of that same ruling to encompass 4G would be a small amend.

Potentially, this means that Everything Everywhere, the firm that owns the Orange, T-Mobile and new EE brand in the UK, could have its one-year monopoly on LTE in the market cut short. Its rivals would no longer have to wait for the UK LTE auction, scheduled for early next year, to launch competing 4G services.

//telecoms.com