Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Duc Long said that to commercialize 5G, the Ministry of Information and Communications will have to conduct frequency auctions according to regulations.
“The Minister of Information and Communications is very concerned about how to auction frequencies to deploy new technologies. But from 2019 until now, we have not been able to do it and have to wait for the revised Frequency Law to take effect from July 1, 2023. After that, the Ministry of Information and Communications has developed Decree 63 to organize and calculate the frequency auction level. According to the roadmap, the frequency auction will be held in November 2023,” said Deputy Minister Pham Duc Long.
Deputy Minister Pham Duc Long said that the Ministry of Information and Communications wants to organize the auction earlier but cannot because it has to wait for the Frequency Law to take effect. The auction must comply with the State's procedures. It is expected that after the auction this November, the Ministry of Information and Communications will license 5G frequencies in 2023 so that 5G can be launched in 2024.
“In addition to implementing 5G spectrum licensing, Vietnam also produces 5G telecommunications equipment. Viettel has produced 5G telecommunications equipment and is in the final stages of testing. It is expected that in about a month and a half, the Ministry of Information and Communications will issue a Vietnamese standard certificate for Viettel's 5G equipment,” Deputy Minister Pham Duc Long continued.
Recently, the Ministry of Information and Communications signed a decision on organizing the determination of collection levels for frequency bands to activate the auction process for granting frequency usage rights for 4G and 5G.
Accordingly, the frequency bands 700 MHz (703-733 MHz and 758-788 MHz), 2600 MHz (2500-2600 MHz), 3700 MHz (3560-4000 MHz) will be auctioned. The Radio Frequency Department (Ministry of Information and Communications) said that this is the first step to activate the auction process to grant the right to use the frequencies of these bands for 4G and 5G in Vietnam.
The Minister of Information and Communications assigns the Radio Frequency Department to select an organization that is qualified to conduct price appraisal activities (price appraisal organization) to determine the basic collection level for the frequency bands 703-733 MHz and 758-788 MHz, 2500-2600 MHz, 3560-4000 MHz; based on the results determined by the price appraisal organization, submit to the Minister to promulgate the basic collection level for the frequency bands.
The Radio Frequency Department said that in Vietnam, the 700 MHz band was previously mainly used for analogue terrestrial television systems. This system has been replaced by digital terrestrial television according to the Project on digitizing terrestrial television transmission and broadcasting by 2020.
On December 28, 2020, Vietnam officially stopped broadcasting terrestrial analog television nationwide and the 700 MHz band was freed up to prepare for the deployment of the IMT mobile information system.
The issuance of the 700 MHz frequency band planning for IMT mobile information is considered to meet the expectations of telecommunications enterprises and bring positive impacts to society: Enterprises have a direction to develop plans for equipment investment and infrastructure development; management agencies have a basis to conduct auctions and grant licenses to use the 700 MHz frequency band; bringing more benefits to people when 4G and 5G mobile information services are developed, especially in rural and mountainous areas.
With the activation of the frequency auction process for the 700 MHz, 2600 MHz, and 3700 MHz bands, it is expected that more than 500 MHz of bandwidth (both low-band and mid-band) will be added to the IMT mobile information system to deploy 4G/5G in Vietnam.
The newly added frequency will make an important contribution to the implementation of the task of "ensuring frequencies for ultra-broadband and universal mobile", contributing to the completion of the telecommunications industry's mission in the new period of "Building modern digital infrastructure, including telecommunications infrastructure and data infrastructure, ultra-large capacity, ultra-broadband, universal, sustainable, green, open, smart and safe".
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