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Japan's MIC green-lights $12b LTE rollout plans
Posted on 18. Jul, 2009 by LteWorld
in News, LTE
July 18, 2009 | Japan's telecom regulator, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), has approved the plans by four anointed LTE carriers to invest 1.134 trillion yen ($11.8 billion) in network rollouts.
It has also allocated new bands of 1.5-GHz spectrum to NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, and SoftBank Mobile, and 1.7-GHz spectrum to eMobile.