With growing support for the European Commission’s 'clusters' approach and Vodafone saying broadcasters should get HD spectrum, a meeting of minds on the principles of reusing the analogue TV bands appears closer. Read more...

Our top story this month is the new mood of compromise over allocating the released analogue TV frequencies Read more...

With the results of America’s 'hundred-year auction' now known it's good news for the Treasury and the two dominant telcos, but for consumers it's more of the same with no guarantee of increased competition in the broadband market. Read more...

America’s 'hundred-year auction', the 700MHz auction selling off prime spectrum released by switching off the analogue broadcasting signal, has finally closed. Read more...

Concerns about harmonisation, democratic accountability, a lack of clarity and devolving powers to Brussels are delaying the progress of the telecoms framework review package. Read more...

A globally harmonised pilot channel or a database system are among the options, writes our Geneva correspondent Scott Billquist in his second article on the ITU's approach to cognitive radio. Read more...

Giving TV viewers a financial incentive to upgrade to more spectrally efficient set top boxes is gaining influential backers and looking increasingly attractive as a way of getting more services into UHF. Read more...

The European Regulators group, CEPT, is asking whether its role needs to be revised in response to Brussels’ proposal for a pan-European regulator and other developments. Read more...

This month the Radiocommunication Bureau is due to solicit candidate technologies for IMT-Advanced, popularly known as '4G' Read more...

The European Commission has retreated from the idea of mandating policy on analogue TV spectrum release and is now advocating broad political buy-in and detailed impact assessments. Read more...