The second stage of the ‘Israeli 5G auction’ was published yesterday by the Israeli Ministry of communication.
This stage will allow the winners to deploy and operate cellular networks in the band of 26GHz, in addition to the current 5G bands of 700MHz, 2600MHz & 3500-3600MHz (and 4G networks).
Links
Links to the action doc (Hebrew) – https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/rfp/07122022/he/Auction-015-2022-5th-generation.pdf
Limitation about the use and deployment – https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/rfp/07122022/he/Auction-015-2022-5th-generation-appendix-D.pdf
My estimations
In the first stage of the deployment, it will be mainly in the center of big cities.
In the second stage of the deployment, the network will include also main roads and where there will be a need to support massive IOT usage.
Today and also after the deployment of the 26GHz 5G band, most of the RF exposure of most of the people will still be to RF radiation below 6GHz.
Measurment
I hope that in the next year we will start selling RF meters that will cover these frequencies.
Today we already have a small RF detector that can detect RF radiation up to 24GHz and a bit more.
RF Protection
Most of the RF protection (both personal and home protection) products we sell today, will also block 26GHz band (and higher frequencies).
