Spectrum efficiency is one reason spectrum sharing seems to make so much sense. And allocating spectrum for use does not always mean spectrum is deployed commercially.
“It could be argued that close to 19 percent of the RF spectrum allocated to mobile service in Chile is being underutilized,” says Jose Felipe Otero Muñoz is the director of Latin America and the Caribbean for 4G Americas.
In Ecuador as much as 38 percent of allocated spectrum is less than fully used, while in Mexico 30 megahertz of spectrum in the 1900 MHz band was allocated at the end of the last century, but never has been used for commercial mobile service, Muñoz says.
Some might say spectrum is being “warehoused.” Others might simply say there is a mismatch of supply and demand, caused, in part, by less than fully competitive market dynamics.
The other issue is that additional spectrum that might be used to stimulate competition has not been brought to market.
The International Telecommunications Union calls for making available 1,300 Mhz at frequencies lower than 3 GHz by 2015.
While in developed countries the amount of spectrum allocated to mobile services is more than 50 percent of that figure, by the first quarter of 2015, only one Latin American market has allocated more than 40 percent of the spectrum recommended by the ITU, according to Signals Telecom Consulting,
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