The European Commission has launched a consultation on a revised methodology to assess quality of service for users of 5G mobile and fixed wireless access networks. Read more...

Standards organisation 3GPP hosted its first 6G workshop and held a plenary meeting last week in Incheon, South Korea. This resulted in new leadership, new research objectives and a shift in operators' and vendors' 6G expectations. Read more...

The June edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report included a downgrade of predicted mobile traffic growth data. This trend continues in the November report for mobile broadband and fixed wireless access. Read more...

The predicted mobile data traffic for 2029 in the latest report is 312 exabytes (EB) per month—a drop of 23 per cent from the November 2023 report, which predicted 406 EB per month. Read more...

It argues that policymakers need to take account of slowing cellular data traffic growth. Read more...

According to the regulator Ofcom, the volume of demand for the spectrum means that conditions for shared access licences should be relaxed. Read more...

At a recent CEPT meeting in Berlin, Qualcomm, LS telcom/Meta and Vodafone/Ericsson shared their first insights into the possibility of coexistence between WiFi and mobile in the upper 6 GHz band. Read more...

A report from an industry association says the range, also being eyed by the mobile industry for 6G, is of critical importance for the satellite industry. Read more...

According to an Ericsson white paper on 6G, the 7—15 GHz band will be an essential range for IMT-2030. PolicyTracker discussed it with Eliane Semaan, Ericsson's director of spectrum and technology regulation. Read more...

The European Commission has agreed on a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) for its "digital decade" targets. To remain technology neutral, the final implementing decision on 5G coverage obligations leaves out any band-specific indicators. Read more...