Sustainability is becoming higher priority, with regulators announcing concrete new measures and the top European mobile operators unveiling a new scoring system for the environmental performance of mobile phones. Read more...

The world’s biggest players in telecoms are attempting to find a common vision for 6G with several key events already taking place this year.  Read more...

UK regulator Ofcom published the final results of its 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz auction today, but questions remain about the impact it will have on the country's mobile industry. Read more...

Orange's senior executive VP for innovation, marketing and technologies says the industry needs to offer "emblematic" services if it is to convince customers that 5G is worth buying. Meanwhile, the head of the Commission’s connectivity unit has revealed details of CEPT’s study schedule for 3.5 GHz. Read more...

Poland’s Ministry of Administration and Digitisation has decided to introduce a new regulation designed to accelerate the country's 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz auction. Read more...

French regulator ARCEP has brokered a deal with the country’s mobile operators that will give Free Mobile more spectrum in the 1800 MHz band in return for allowing Orange and SFR to operate LTE in the former GSM band. Read more...

Criticism of the recent Swiss combinatorial clock auction has intensified following the announcement of first quarter results from one of the bidders, Sunrise, which paid proportionately twice as much as its rivals. Read more...

If the proposed merger between the UK operations of France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telkom’s T-Mobile gets the green light, it adds another complication to the protracted negotiations over the reassignment of UK mobile spectrum. Read more...

Ofcom, the UK unitary regulator set up in 2003, has announced the results of its first spectrum auction. Read more...

ART has agreed to hold back from imposing SMP obligations in the mobile sector until it analyses the impact of MVNOs. Read more...