Ofcom is to introduce a market-based pricing system for digital TV and radio, rejecting claims that this is economically inefficient, will damage programming and prolong uncertainty over broadcasters' funding. Read more...

Our top story this month is the latest development in the battle to get WiMAX accepted as part of the IMT-2000 family of technologies. Read more...

The battle to get WiMAX included as a part of the IMT-2000 family took an unexpected turn at the ITU-R Study Group 8 meeting in Geneva on June 25 and 26. Read more...

The UK regulator has watered down plans to apply market principles to spectrum for wireless mics but PMSE users say they still need more details. Read more...

The Canadian government has asked a leading European expert, Professor Martin Cave, for advice on liberalising the country's spectrum management regime. Read more...

The Commission’s harmonisation of frequencies for mobile satellite services was warmly welcomed by operators. But how should the licences be awarded, how can national approaches be co-ordinated and can the EU keep to the proposed timetable? Read more...

HDTV means the existing unlicensed bands will soon run out of capacity says Philips but not all regulators agree. Read more...

Spectrum management is more complex than usually imagined, argues Gerard Pogorel. There are nine possible regimes, not just command and control, market or commons, and it is more productive to think of wireless clusters rather than individual technologies Read more...

A European regulators working group has agreed a deal on harmonising a UHF sub band for mobile, but how many countries will actually implement this and does the voluntary nature of the agreement limit its usefulness? Read more...

The final proposals for the European Commission's review of the Electronic Communications Framework - which have spectrum liberalisation as their centrepiece -will not now be published until October. Read more...