Adv-Search - PolicyTracker: spectrum management news, research and training

Search Results

Search Term:

From Year

To Year

9405 Results

Former Competition Commissioner to be in charge of radio frequencies

Neelie Kroes rather than Viviane Reding is set to get the top job in telecoms. The portfolio which includes spectrum will be called “Digital Agenda” instead of “Information Society”

RFID

Railways and RFID eye same small block of frequencies

Regulators and standards bodies are considering how to globally harmonise the expanding European RFID industry while helping the railway GSM network cope with interference. Both technologies want to use spectrum...

mobile

Zain forced to abandon takeover of Palestinian operator

The takeover of Palestinian incumbent fixed-line operator Paltel and its mobile subsidiary Jawwal by the rapidly growing Zain Group of Kuwait has suddenly and unexpectedly been abandoned.

France

Wireless broadband

Bolloré starts French mobile WiMAX rollout in Q1 2010

France’s main holder of 3.5 GHz spectrum, Bolloré Telecom, will start to build a near-nationwide WiMAX network next year, despite having fallen well behind schedule. The company says the service...

2.6 GHz

mobile

Spectrum auctions

Why did the Finnish 2.6GHz auction raise so little?

A lack of competition and an unusual design feature seem the main reasons for the low revenues in Finland’s first auction.

2.6 GHz

Germany

mobile

Wireless broadband

German 2.6Ghz case expected to go to European Court of Justice

An intervention from the European Commission makes it increasingly likely that the four year old dispute over technology neutrality in 2.6GHz will go all the way to the EU’s highest...

“Telecoms package” passes into law

The review of the Telecoms Framework Directive has finally been agreed after two years of discussion between the Commission, member states and MEPs.

mobile

Spectrum auctions

Wireless broadband

Finland’s first spectrum auction raises just €3.8 million

Four 2.6Ghz licences in Finland have been sold for a fraction of the amount raised in similar auctions in neighbouring countries.

Regulatory boss who drove liberalisation in Bahrain moves on

Alan Horne leaves the Bahrain Telecoms Regulatory Authority at the end of November after three years at the helm overseeing its transformation into one of the most liberalised and forward...

Broadcasting

Cognitive Radio

Dynamic spectrum access

Cognitive radio: geolocation approach gets boost in Europe

Geolocation is emerging as a promising way of preventing cognitive devices causing harmful interference in UHF spectrum white spaces, the EU Radio Spectrum Policy Group and UK regulator say. But...

Canada

Egypt’s Orascom fights for right to use Canadian spectrum

Orascom is seeking to overturn a ruling which prevents it using spectrum won in the recent AWS auction. The company was judged to have fallen foul of Canada's foreign ownership...

World’s first white spaces network launches in US

Telecoms regulators from the US, the UK, Brazil and Canada have expressed interest in the technology behind the world’s first white spaces network which has been launched on a non-commercial...

Training Understanding Modern Spectrum Management

The key engineering, legal and policy issues

SignalTracker app

Bands
Signal strength
Speed
Save results