{"id":9185,"date":"2026-05-22T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/?p=9185"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:15:20","slug":"the-meeting-of-satrc-working-group-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/?p=9185","title":{"rendered":"The Meeting of SATRC Working Group Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority (BICMA) recently hosted a South Asian Telecommunications Regulator Council (SATRC)- Spectrum Working Group (Spec-WG) Meeting from 20-21 May 2026 at Hotel Ariya, Thimphu Bhutan in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The meeting was inaugurated by Hon\u2019ble Lyonpo Namgyal Dorji, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment, and was attended by expert delegates from the Telecom Regulators from SATRC member countries, and the affiliate industry members such as Huawei, Ericsson, GSMA, as well as the local officials from the GovTech Agency, local telecom operators and related industries.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The SATRC Spec-WG specifically focuses on technical and regulatory aspects of spectrum management, including spectrum harmonization, efficient allocation and assignment practices, spectrum pricing, refarming, and coexistence studies. The recent SATRC Spec-WG 2026 mainly discussed three work items relevant to the spectrum and telecommunications industry, namely;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">1. Use of Unlicensed Spectrum- Potentials and Challenges for SATRC Countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">2. Impact of technological evolution on the price of spectrum for mobile broadband- Case study in the SATRC member countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">3. Regulatory Approaches to Enable V-band use for High- Capacity Wireless Application.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.08.56.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.08.56.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.08.56.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.08.56-300x195.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.08.56-1024x666.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.08.56-768x500.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.08.56-1536x999.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.08.56-2048x1332.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.08.56-360x234.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.08.56-600x390.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.09.11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.09.11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.09.11.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.09.11-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.09.11-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.09.11-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.09.11-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.09.11-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.09.11-360x240.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-22-at-16.09.11-600x400.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority (BICMA) recently hosted a South Asian Telecommunications Regulator Council (SATRC)- Spectrum Working Group (Spec-WG) Meeting from 20-21 May 2026 at Hotel Ariya, Thimphu Bhutan in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT). The meeting&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/?p=9185\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9188,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions\/9188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bicma.gov.bt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}