When the world's regulators met in Egypt last year to discuss the agenda for WRC-23, it was widely thought that there will be a discussion of potential IMT identifications in frequencies between 3.3 GHz and 24 GHz. As with every compromise, not everyone got what they wanted. The satellite and… Read more...

Controversy, compromise, and consensus: the latest World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) at Sharm el-Sheikh had it all. Credit must go to the 3400 delegates from 165 ITU member states for their efforts not just over the four weeks of the conference, but throughout the preceding four years of preparatory studies and… Read more...

The satellite industry's worst fears did not materialise at WRC-19 and it declared itself pleased with the result. Existing services gained some protection against 5G in 26 GHz and 40 GHz but not in exactly the way the sector had hoped. There was good news for satellite in 28 GHz:… Read more...

Manuel Marti is in Sharm el-Sheikh and has written this excellent article. Yet to be confirmed in the plenary but it seems the basis for a deal is there.   Read more...

The man who will be running the show at WRC-19, Amr Badawi, says he is looking forward to a few weeks of sun, sand, sea and spectrum in Sharm El Sheikh. There are now just 10 days to go until it all gets underway. PolicyTracker's very own Manuel Marti will… Read more...

With four months to go until WRC-19, where do we stand now? What has happened since the report we published last year? The ITU World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRCs) are hugely important. They set the pattern for how spectrum will be used globally. The WRC-19 agenda, for example, includes choosing the bands for mmWave 5G.… Read more...

For the past three years we have published the leading resource for sector professionals seeking to understand future directions in 4G and 5G spectrum. The new edition has been updated for 2019 and is now available for purchase. For the first time it includes an analysis of the satellite sector,… Read more...

This Research Note focusses on satellite agenda items in WRC-19, principally the removal of a restriction on broadcasting-satellite services and improving spectrum access for movable earth stations and non-geostationary satellites. The USA, Canada and the Asian and European regional groupings support the removal of some of broadcasting-satellite service limitations but African… Read more...

Our second Countdown to WRC-19 Research Note looks at the mobile and fixed services, the topics covered in Chapters 1 and 2 of the conference preparatory document. Excluding 5G mmWave services, the first big issue is additional spectrum around 39 GHz and 20 GHz for High Altitude Platforms (HAPS), such… Read more...

There are about 30 items on the agenda for the upcoming World Radio Conference (WRC-19) and we have been sorting through them to select those with the greatest industry-wide significance. We have produced a series of Research Notes focussing on six themes, explaining where there seems to be consensus and… Read more...