This is how the radio spectrum for mobile phones is in Latin America

No market in Latin America reaches 50% of the spectrum requirements for a low market environment proposed by the ITU.

Brazil, with 609 MHz delivered for mobile services, is the country that has enabled the largest amount of radio spectrum to operators, according to an infographic by 5G Americas made with document data Analysis of ITU Spectrum Recommendations in Latin America, recently published. However, the frequencies delivered in the Brazilian market do not even represent 50 percent of what is recommended by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for a low market scenario, and even less (31.1 percent) for a high market scenario, for the year 2020.

Other countries that have provided more than 500 MHz of radio spectrum below 3 GHz for mobile services are Peru (554,4 MHz), Mexico (524.9 MHz), and Uruguay (515 MHz), as of May 2020.

The average spectrum delivered in the analyzed markets is 392.1 MHz, which translates to just 29.3 percent of the suggestion for a low market scenario, or 20 percent for a high scenario.

At the far end, Guatemala It is the market that has assigned the smallest portion of frequencies, with only 210.6 MHz.

It is worth remembering that, in report M.2290-0, the OUT establishes the spectrum bandwidth requirements for the development of IMT-2000 (3G) and IMT-Advanced (4G) mobile services for the year 2020. These requirements consider a low and a high market scenario or environment, taking into account factors such as user density, average session duration, average service bit rate, mobility ratio, and others.