SmarTone and China Mobile permitted to swap 1800MHz spectrum

摘要

Hong Kong's Communications Authority (CA) released a statement permitting China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) and SmarTone Mobile Communications (SmarTone) to swap a portion of their wireless spectrum in the 1800MHz band. The two cellular providers are currently each assigned a total of 2×13.2MHz spectrum in the 1800MHz band. Their assignments are not contiguous as different frequency blocks were assigned to them at different times. In order to convert some of their fragmented frequency blocks to contiguous ones, CMHK and SmarTone submitted a joint request to the CA asking for its permission to swap 2×1.6MHz blocks of their assigned spectrum.