By Artifex Consulting LLC | January 12, 2026   The global rollout of 5G is often portrayed as a technological leap—but from an investment standpoint, it is fundamentally a strategic exercise in spectrum economics, capital allocation, and timing. While 5G promises transformative capabilities, its financial success hinges not on the technology itself, but on how operators deploy it across frequency bands and over what timeline. As our analysis of key markets reveals, suboptimal

Recently, Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) made the decision to allocate the lower portion of the 6 GHz band—specifically the 5925–6425 MHz range, totaling 500 MHz of bandwidth—for Wi-Fi 6 use. This makes the IFT the first regulator worldwide to take such a decision, further intensifying the global debate over the future allocation of this band—particularly as countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and others in the region h

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5G in Chile: The Evidence Confirms It The results of the 5G spectrum auction organized by Chile’s Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones...

5G Auctions? Costa Rica and Brazil I have been amazed by the results of 5G spectrum auctions in Latin America because these processes...

In many markets, there are regional mobile operators and companies that use mobile technologies or radio spectrum to provide fixed...

En muchos mercados existen operadores móviles regionales, y empresas que utilizan las tecnologías móviles o el espectro radioeléctrico...

¿Subastas 5G? Costa Rica y Brasil He visto con asombro los resultados de las licitaciones de espectro 5G en América Latina, debido a que...

5G es una tecnología multicapa que fue diseñada para desplegar una red con 3 bandas de frecuencia: bandas bajas, medias y altas. Las...

Desde Artifex Consulting LLC hemos centrado el desarrollo de nuestros servicios en aportar innovadoras soluciones para apoyar a los...

Recientemente, el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones de México tomó la decisión de adoptar el estándar Wifi 6 para la parte baja de...

Hace un par de meses, participé en la mesa de espectro del Comité 5G del Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones. Agradezco al IFT por...

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Costa Rica’s newly elected president Rodrigo Chaves is facing pressure from mobile operators to take valuable mid-band spectrum back from...

SpectrumInvest Discounted cash flow and benchmarking models have lost precision, evidence of this has been the impact on spectrum...