Analysis of 5G Band Candidates for Initial Deployment in Indonesia

Indonesia has just started to deploy LTE 4G network in 2015. Nevertheless, Indonesia has started preparing to roll out 5G network in the near future to support government program in the application of industry 4.0 and the need of data traffic of mobile phone user which keep increasing. Based on the timeline of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the 5G Technology will be officially commercially deployed by 2020. Some leading market countries have begun trials and preparations to deploy its 5G network according to the timeline of ITU. Some reports say that the Indonesian government has taken steps to accelerate to deploy the fastest 5G network by the end of 2021. One step of the acceleration is to begin studying which band candidate will be used to deploy 5G network. This paper will examine and analyze which band candidate that suitable for the initial deployment of 5G in Indonesia based on the condition of the existing frequency spectrum allocation. From the analysis that has been done, it is found that the most suitable candidate bands for the initial deployment of 5G network in Indonesia are in band 3.3-4.2 GHz and 24.25-29.5 GHz.