In what may be the first use of blockchain for spectrum management, the Agence National des Fréquences (ANFR) and start-up Blockchain Partner are preparing a limited trial of the technology using frequencies at 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and in other bands. Read more...

Sharing spectrum and minimising spectrum waste are essential for a successful 5G story, former UK minister David Willetts said in his keynote address to the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Global Summit. Read more...

The Indian government wants its National Digital Communications Policy (NDCP) 2018 to signal a move away from policies that have resulted in extremely high reserve prices and unsold frequencies in recent years. Read more...

5G could enhance agricultural growth by delivering reliable and high bandwidth connections but there still are questions to answer over coverage and security. Read more...

World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) agenda items 7, 9.1 and 9.2 always concern recurring issues that regularly require amendments to the Radio Regulations. The increased use of these items is now attracting the attention of policymakers as they start to consider potential agenda items for WRC-23 and beyond as part of… Read more...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that raises the prospect of an auction of 2.5 GHz spectrum in the mostly rural areas where it is not already assigned to the Educational Broadband Service. Read more...

Decades after the "green revolution" in agriculture, the use of UHF spectrum is driving big changes in farming. Read more...

The satellite industry is proposing to study changing the Radio Regulations to address the use of the L-band for data relays for non-geostationary satellites (NGSOs). Read more...

China is promoting its terrestrial broadcasting standard and funding the digital switchover in various developing countries. Read more...

The US plans to award various mmWave bands for 5G at the county or partial economic area level, while in the C-band it plans to share the spectrum, allowing exclusive use in a portion of the spectrum at the smallest geographical level. Read more...