Operators in various parts of Asia are trialing advanced 5G services using the upper 6 GHz band, but only 100 MHz of this spectrum will be made available for 5G in the region, even though the largest regional economy, China, has earmarked the whole 6 GHz band for cellular. The GSMA, ahead of this year’s World Radio Conference (WRC) in Dubai, is calling for a bigger cellular allocation in a band that is widely perceived, especially in western regions, to be primarily the territory of WiFi. The USA led the way in allocating the lower 6 GHz band (5925-6425 MHz) to WiFi, and the WiFi 6 standard was extended to support tri-band operations in 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6…