by Richard Handford
An adviser to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has ruled out making the unlicensed lower 6 GHz (5925-6425 MHz) band any larger. Read more...
by Richard Handford
India’s government has issued a draft notification to delicense the lower part of the 6 GHz band and is making progress with its strategy for IMT in the upper part of the band. Read more...
by Richard Handford
TRAI has proposed a method for calculating the price of administratively awarded satellite licences. Read more...
by Richard Handford
A sale would make India one of the few countries in the world to have assigned the band for IMT. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The cabinet has approved a widespread reassignment of spectrum currently held by the public sector to 5G and 6G. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The Australian government will release a discussion paper on the future of free-to-air broadcasting in early 2025, says the country’s communications minister Michelle Rowland. Read more...
by Richard Handford
Reliance Jio appears to have been defeated in its bid to get a discussion of auctions included in regulator TRAI’s consultation paper alongside the administrative assignment of satellite spectrum. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The two-day contest raised INR 113.4 billion ($1.35 billion), a significant sum of money although by India's standards a muted affair focused on legacy spectrum bands. Read more...
by Richard Handford
A Department of Telecommunications (DoT) official described Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), the US-based dynamic shared access system, as “under active consideration” for India. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The organisation that runs India's railways has asked the government for a further 2 x 5 MHz in the sought-after 700 MHz band—an assignment worth more than $2 billion in normal circumstances. Read more...