LTE frequency bands

Long Term Evolution (LTE) telecommunications networks use several frequency bands with associated bandwidths.

Frequency bands and channel bandwidths[edit]

From Tables 5.5-1 "E-UTRA Operating Bands" and 5.6.1-1 "E-UTRA Channel Bandwidth" of the latest published version of the 3GPP TS 36.101^[1], the following table lists the specified frequency bands of LTE and the channel bandwidths each band supports.

Band	Duplex mode^{[A 1]}	ƒ (MHz)	Common name	Subset of band	Uplink^{[A 2]} (MHz)	Downlink^{[A 3]} (MHz)	Duplex spacing (MHz)	Channel bandwidths (MHz)
1	FDD	2100	IMT	65	1920 – 1980	2110 – 2170	190	5, 10, 15, 20
2	FDD	1900	PCS^{[A 4]}	25	1850 – 1910	1930 – 1990	80	1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20
3	FDD	1800	DCS		1710 – 1785	1805 – 1880	95	1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20
4	FDD	1700	AWS‑1^{[A 4]}	66	1710 – 1755	2110 – 2155	400	1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20
5	FDD	850	Cellular	26	824 – 849	869 – 894	45	1.4, 3, 5, 10
7	FDD	2600	IMT-E		2500 – 2570	2620 – 2690	120	5, 10, 15, 20
8	FDD	900	Extended GSM		880 – 915	925 – 960	45	1.4, 3, 5, 10
11	FDD	1500	Lower PDC	74	1427.9 – 1447.9	1475.9 – 1495.9	48	5, 10
12	FDD	700	Lower SMH^{[A 5]}	85	699 – 716	729 – 746	30	1.4, 3, 5, 10
13	FDD	700	Upper SMH^{[A 6]}		777 – 787	746 – 756	−31	5, 10
14	FDD	700	Upper SMH^{[A 7]}		788 – 798	758 – 768	−30	5, 10
17	FDD	700	Lower SMH^{[A 8]}	12, 85	704 – 716	734 – 746	30	5, 10
18	FDD	850	Lower 800 (Japan)	26	815 – 830	860 – 875	45	5, 10, 15
19	FDD	850	Upper 800 (Japan)	26	830 – 845	875 – 890	45	5, 10, 15
20	FDD	800	Digital Dividend (EU)		832 – 862	791 – 821	−41	5, 10, 15, 20
21	FDD	1500	Upper PDC	74	1447.9 – 1462.9	1495.9 – 1510.9	48	5, 10, 15
24	FDD	1600	Upper L‑Band (US)		1626.5 – 1660.5	1525 – 1559	−101.5	5, 10
25	FDD	1900	Extended PCS^{[A 9]}		1850 – 1915	1930 – 1995	80	1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20
26	FDD	850	Extended Cellular		814 – 849	859 – 894	45	1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15
28	FDD	700	APT		703 – 748	758 – 803	55	3, 5, 10, 15, 20
29	SDL	700	Lower SMH^{[A 10]}		N/A	717 – 728	N/A	3, 5, 10
30	FDD	2300	WCS^{[A 11]}		2305 – 2315	2350 – 2360	45	5, 10
31	FDD	450	NMT		452.5 – 457.5	462.5 – 467.5	10	1.4, 3, 5
32	SDL	1500	L‑Band (EU)	75	N/A	1452 – 1496	N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
34	TDD	2000	IMT		2010 – 2025		N/A	5, 10, 15
37	TDD	1900	PCS^{[A 12]}		1910 – 1930		N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
38	TDD	2600	IMT-E^{[A 12]}	41	2570 – 2620		N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
39	TDD	1900	DCS–IMT Gap		1880 – 1920		N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
40	TDD	2300	S-Band		2300 – 2400		N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
41	TDD	2500	BRS		2496 – 2690		N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
42	TDD	3500	CBRS (EU, Japan)		3400 – 3600		N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
43	TDD	3700	C-Band		3600 – 3800		N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
44	TDD	700	APT		703 – 803		N/A	3, 5, 10, 15, 20
46	TDD	5200	U-NII^{[A 13]}		5150 – 5925		N/A	10, 20
47	TDD	5900	U-NII-4^{[A 14]}		5855 – 5925		N/A	10, 20
48	TDD	3500	CBRS (US)		3550 – 3700		N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
49	TDD	3500	C-Band	48	3550 – 3700		N/A	10, 20
50	TDD	1500	L‑Band (EU)		1432 – 1517		N/A	3, 5, 10, 15, 20
51	TDD	1500	L‑Band Extension (EU)		1427 – 1432		N/A	3, 5
52	TDD	3300	C-Band		3300 – 3400		N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
53	TDD	2400	S-Band		2483.5 – 2495		N/A	1.4, 3, 5, 10
65	FDD	2100	Extended IMT		1920 – 2010	2110 – 2200	190	5, 10, 15, 20
66	FDD	1700	Extended AWS (AWS‑1–3)^{[A 15]}		1710 – 1780	2110 – 2200^[2]	400	1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20
67	SDL	700	EU 700		N/A	738 – 758	N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
68	FDD	700	ME 700		698 – 728	753 – 783	55	5, 10, 15
69	SDL	2600	IMT-E^{[A 12]}		N/A	2570 – 2620	N/A	5
70	FDD	1700	Supplementary AWS (AWS‑2–4)^[3]		1695 – 1710	1995 – 2020	295 – 300^[4]	5, 10, 15
71	FDD	600	Digital Dividend (US)		663 – 698	617 – 652	−46	5, 10, 15, 20
72	FDD	450	PMR (EU)		451 – 456	461 – 466	10	1.4, 3, 5
73	FDD	450	PMR (APT)		450 – 455	460 – 465	10	1.4, 3, 5
74	FDD	1500	Lower L‑Band (US)		1427 – 1470	1475 – 1518	48	1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20
75	SDL	1500	L‑Band (EU)		N/A	1432 – 1517	N/A	5, 10, 15, 20
76	SDL	1500	L‑Band Extension (EU)		N/A	1427 – 1432	N/A	5
85	FDD	700	Extended Lower SMH^{[A 5]}		698 – 716	728 – 746	30	5, 10
87	FDD	450	PMR		410 – 415	420 – 425	10	1.4, 3, 5
88	FDD	450	PMR		412 – 417	422 – 427	10	1.4, 3, 5
Band	Duplex mode^{[A 1]}	ƒ (MHz)	Common name	Subset of band	Uplink^{[A 2]} (MHz)	Downlink^{[A 3]} (MHz)	Duplex spacing (MHz)	Channel bandwidths (MHz)

^ ^a ^b Frequency division duplexing (FDD); time division duplexing (TDD); FDD supplemental downlink (SDL)
^ ^a ^b UE transmit; BS receive
^ ^a ^b UE receive; BS transmit
^ ^a ^b Blocks A–F
^ ^a ^b Blocks A–C
^ Block C
^ Block D
^ Blocks B–C
^ Blocks A–G
^ Blocks D–E
^ Blocks A–B
^ ^a ^b ^c Duplex Spacing
^ License Assisted Access
^ Cellular Vehicle-to-everything
^ Blocks A–J

Deployments by region[edit]

The following table shows the standardized LTE bands and their regional use. The main LTE bands are in bold print. Not yet deployed are not available (N/A). Partial deployments varies from country to country and the details are available at List of LTE networks.

Networks on LTE bands 7, 28 (LTE-FDD) are suitable for global roaming in ITU Regions 1, 2 and 3.
Networks on LTE bands 1, 3 (LTE-FDD) are suitable for roaming in ITU Regions 1 and 3, Costa Rica and Brazil and partially in some Caribbean countries.
Networks on LTE band 20 (LTE-FDD) are suitable for roaming in ITU Region 1 only.
Networks on LTE band 5 (LTE-FDD) are suitable for roaming in ITU Regions 2 and 3.
Networks on LTE bands 38, 40 (LTE-TDD) may allow global roaming in the future (ITU Regions 1, 2 and 3).
Networks on LTE band 8 (LTE-FDD) may allow global roaming in the future (ITU Regions 1, 2 and 3).
Networks on LTE bands 2 and 4 (LTE-FDD) are suitable for roaming in ITU Region 2 (Americas) only.

Band	Duplex Mode^{[B 1]}	ƒ (MHz)	Common Name	North America^{[B 2]}	Latin America^{[B 2]}	Caribbean^{[B 2]}	Europe^{[B 3]}	Africa^{[B 3]}	Asia^{[B 4]}	Oceania^{[B 4]}
01	FDD	2100	IMT	No	Brazil, Costa Rica	No	Yes	South Africa (Cell C, MTN, Vodacom)	Yes	Australia (Vodafone)
02	FDD	1900	PCS^{[B 5]}	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
03	FDD	1800	DCS	No	Brazil, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
04	FDD	1700	AWS^{[B 5]}	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
05	FDD	850	CLR	Yes	El Salvador, Guatemala	Barbados, Bermuda, Dominican Republic (Altice)	No	Malawi (Access Communications)	Cambodia (SEATEL), India (Jio), Indonesia (Smartfren), Malaysia (Telekom Malaysia), Pakistan (Telenor), Philippines (Smart), South Korea (LG U+, SK Telecom), China(China Telecom)	Australia (Vodafone)
07	FDD	2600	IMT-E	Canada (Bell, Rogers, Telus, Freedom Mobile)	Yes	Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Barthelemy, Saint Martin, Dominican Republic (Claro)	Yes	Ghana (Surfline), Zambia (MTN, Zamtel)	Yes	New Zealand (Vodafone, Spark)
08	FDD	900	EGSM	No	Peru	British Virgin Islands	Yes	Nigeria (ntel), South Africa (Vodacom)	Yes	New Zealand (2degrees)
11	FDD	1500	LPDC	No	No	No	No	No	Japan (au, SoftBank)	No
12	FDD	700	LSMH^{[B 6]}	Yes	Bolivia, Belize	Yes	No	No	No	Kiribati (TSKL)
13	FDD	700	USMH^{[B 7]}	Yes	Bolivia, Belize	Yes	No	No	No	No
14	FDD	700	USMH^{[B 8]}	USA (FirstNet/AT&T)	No	No	No	No	No	No
17	FDD	700	LSMH^{[B 9]}	Yes	Bolivia, Belize	Yes	No	No	No	No
18	FDD	800		No	No	No	No	No	Japan (au)	No
19	FDD	800		No	No	No	No	No	Japan (NTT Docomo)	No
20	FDD	800	EUDD	No	No	Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti	Yes	Yes	Kazakhstan (Beeline, Kcell)	Fiji (Digicel), French Polynesia (Vini), New Caledonia (OPT)
21	FDD	1500	UPDC	No	No	No	No	No	Japan (NTT Docomo)	No
25	FDD	1900	EPCS^{[B 10]}	USA (Sprint), Canada (Ice Wireless)	No	No	No	No	No	No
26	FDD	850	ECLR	USA (Sprint), Canada (Ice Wireless)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Japan (au)^{[B 11]}	N/A
28	FDD	700	APT	No	Yes	Trinidad and Tobago	Finland (DNA), France (Bouygues, Free Mobile), Germany (Telefonica)	Nigeria (Glo Mobile), Kenya (Faiba 4G)	Yes	Yes
29	FDD	700	LSMH^{[B 12]}	USA (AT&T), Canada (Bell, Telus)	No	No	No	No	No	No
30	FDD	2300	WCS^{[B 13]}	USA (AT&T), Canada (Telus, Xplornet)	No	No	No	No	No	No
31	FDD	450	NMT	No	N/A	N/A	Denmark (Net1), Finland (Ukko Mobile), Norway (Net1), Russia (Skylink), Sweden (Net1)	N/A	Armenia (Beeline), Indonesia (Net1), Philippines (Net1)	N/A
32	FDD	1500	L‑Band	No	N/A	N/A	Italy (TIM, Vodafone)	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	TDD	2600	IMT-E	No	Brazil, Colombia	Dominican Republic	Yes	N/A	Malaysia (Yes 4G), Myanmar (Ananda 4G+), Sri Lanka (SLT)	N/A
39	TDD	1900		No	No	No	No	No	China (China Mobile)	No
40	TDD	2300		No	No	No	Latvia (LMT), Lithuania (MEZON), United Kingdom (O2)	Zambia (Vodafone, Zamtel)	Yes	Yes
41	TDD	2500	BRS	USA (Sprint), Canada (Freedom Mobile, Xplornet)	No	Trinidad and Tobago (bmobile)	No	Madagascar (Blueline)	China (China Mobile), Japan (KDDI (UQ), SoftBank (WCP)), Philippines (Globe)	No
42	TDD	3500	C-Band	Canada (Bell, Xplornet)	No	No	Slovakia (O2, SWAN [sk], Slovanet)	No	Iran (MTN Irancell, Mobinnet), Japan (au, NTT Docomo, SoftBank)	N/A
43	TDD	3700	C-Band	No	No	No	Slovakia (O2, SWAN [sk])	No	No	No
44	TDD	700	APT	No	No	No	No	No	N/A	No
46	TDD	5200	LAA	USA (AT&T^[5], T-Mobile^[6], Verizon^[7])
65	FDD	2100	EIMT	No	N/A	N/A	EAN (T-Mobile, Inmarsat)	N/A	N/A	N/A
66	FDD	1700	EAWS^{[B 14]}	Yes	N/A	N/A	No	No	No	No
67	FDD	700		No	No	No	N/A	No	No	No
68	FDD	700		No	No	No	No	N/A	N/A	No
69	FDD	2600	IMT-E	No	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
70	FDD	2000	AWS‑4	N/A	No	No	No	No	No	No
71	FDD	600	USDD	USA (T-Mobile)	No	No	No	No	No	No
72	FDD	450	PMR	No	No	No	N/A	No	No	No
Band	Duplex Mode^{[B 1]}	ƒ (MHz)	Common Name	North America^{[B 2]}	Latin America^{[B 2]}	Caribbean^{[B 2]}	Europe^{[B 3]}	Africa^{[B 3]}	Asia^{[B 4]}	Oceania^{[B 4]}

^ ^a ^b Frequency division duplexing (FDD); time division duplexing (TDD)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ITU Region 2
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ITU Region 1
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ITU Region 3
^ ^a ^b Blocks A–F
^ Blocks A–C
^ Block C
^ Block D
^ Blocks B–C
^ Blocks A–G
^ Via Multi-Frequency Band Indicator (MFBI)
^ Blocks D–E
^ Blocks A–B
^ Blocks A–J

References[edit]

^ "TS 36.101: Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception" (16.3.0 ed.). 3GPP. 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2019-10-09.
^ Downlink frequency range 2180 – 2200 MHz is restricted for use as intra-band Supplemental Downlink.
^ The Downlink is made up of the AWS-2 Block H downlink and the AWS-4 uplink and the Uplink, of the AWS-3 Blocks A1–B1.
^ Duplex spacing depends on whether the Uplink is paired with the lower or the upper part of the Downlink, with the remainder of the Downlink available for use as intra-band Supplemental Downlink.
^ "AT&T Debuts Commercial LTE Licensed Assisted Access (LTE-LAA) Technology in Indianapolis". about.att.com. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
^ "T-Mobile seeing 5-10x increase in speeds thanks to LAA". FierceWireless. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
^ "Exclusive: Verizon starts nationwide LAA deployment". RCR Wireless News. 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2019-11-20.

External links[edit]

[DM-2] Frequency division duplexing (FDD); time division duplexing (TDD); FDD supplemental downlink (SDL)

[UL-3] UE transmit; BS receive

[DL-4] UE receive; BS transmit

[:0-5] Blocks A–F

[:1-6] Blocks A–C

[7] Block C

[8] Block D

[9] Blocks B–C

[10] Blocks A–G

[11] Blocks D–E

[12] Blocks A–B

[:2-13] Duplex Spacing

[LAA-14] License Assisted Access

[C-V2X-15] Cellular Vehicle-to-everything

[16] Blocks A–J

[DM-20] Frequency division duplexing (FDD); time division duplexing (TDD)

[:1-21] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ITU Region 2

[:2-22] ITU Region 1

[:3-23] ITU Region 3

[:0-24] Blocks A–F

[25] Blocks A–C

[26] Block C

[27] Block D

[28] Blocks B–C

[29] Blocks A–G

[30] Via Multi-Frequency Band Indicator (MFBI)

[31] Blocks D–E

[32] Blocks A–B

[36] Blocks A–J

[1] "TS 36.101: Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception" (16.3.0 ed.). 3GPP. 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2019-10-09.

[17] Downlink frequency range 2180 – 2200 MHz is restricted for use as intra-band Supplemental Downlink.

[18] The Downlink is made up of the AWS-2 Block H downlink and the AWS-4 uplink and the Uplink, of the AWS-3 Blocks A1–B1.

[19] Duplex spacing depends on whether the Uplink is paired with the lower or the upper part of the Downlink, with the remainder of the Downlink available for use as intra-band Supplemental Downlink.

[33] "AT&T Debuts Commercial LTE Licensed Assisted Access (LTE-LAA) Technology in Indianapolis". about.att.com. Retrieved 2019-11-20.

[34] "T-Mobile seeing 5-10x increase in speeds thanks to LAA". FierceWireless. Retrieved 2019-11-20.

[35] "Exclusive: Verizon starts nationwide LAA deployment". RCR Wireless News. 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2019-11-20.

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