Carriers secure opportunity to use 700 MHz band

It is expected that by 2020, about 100 MHz of bandwidth in the 700 MHz band will be released after Vietnam completes its digital television roadmap. This amount of bandwidth will be allocated to the mobile broadband sector. This is one of the information mentioned in the Summary Report of 5 years of implementing the Radio Frequency Law of the Radio Frequency Department held on the morning of March 18, 2015.

The 700 MHz band (specifically 694-790 MHz) was previously used in the television industry to broadcast analog television channels. With conventional analog television, a frequency channel can only broadcast one television program, but if using digital terrestrial television using DVB-T2 technology, a frequency channel can broadcast up to 20 programs. Therefore, when implementing the digitalization roadmap, this amount of spectrum is released.

700 MHz is considered one of the golden bands because its coverage area is 3 times wider than the 2,100 MHz band, helping to reduce the number of base stations that need to be invested in.

700 MHz is considered one of the “golden” frequency bands because it provides both high transmission speed and wide coverage. Both the television and mobile sectors are eager to own this frequency band. In the world, especially in countries with developed television industries, both the television and telecommunications sectors are actively lobbying to gain the right to use this frequency band.

The policy of allocating the 700 MHz band to the mobile sector as soon as the digitalization roadmap is completed was mentioned by the Ministry of Information and Communications in early 2015, when it first started implementing digital television.

Thus, in general, the issue of frequency resources for domestic mobile service providers is relatively favorable. In addition to the licensed 2,600 MHz band, the Ministry has also allowed businesses to deploy on the 1,800 MHz band. Granting an additional 700 MHz band to network operators will be a solid foundation for frequency resources for network operators to successfully deploy 4G. In 2025, it is possible that one of the two 2G and 3G networks will also stop operating to free up bandwidth for 4G and 5G.

According to XHTT