The results of the Regional Radio Conference of 2006 may look ‘promising’ but whether the compromise agreement for flexible use of frequency allocations for non-broadcast purposes goes far enough, remains to be seen. Read more...

With the closure of its consultation this week, Ofcom edges a step closer to defining spectrum usage rights. Here Australia’s Michael Whittaker explains why he thinks the UK’s communications regulator is barking up the wrong tree. Read more...

The “Utopian dream” of a fully fledged cognitive network may be possible within fifteen years but not before a complex jigsaw of technical, policy and legal challenges is pieced together. Read more...

Norway is inviting commercial applications for a TETRA licence which in most other European countries is allocated to the police or emergency services. Read more...

The Regional Radiocommunications Conference of 2006 is proving to be a sensitive and complex affair but PolicyTracker has learnt that 2015 is the expected date for analogue switch off across the region. Read more...

Tumbling costs may have caused an explosion of Radio Frequency Identification tags in recent years, but problems with international compatibility, interference and privacy remain. Read more...

Tensions are mounting at the ballot resolution meeting for the existing international WLAN security standard 8802-11 which got underway in Prague this week. Read more...

It is technically possible to use the GSM bands for 3G says the European regulators organisation, CEPT, but so far only France has agreed to do this and a consistent EU approach seems unlikely. Read more...

One of the central policy objectives of the European Commission is said to be coming under pressure at the Regional Radio Conference in Geneva where now, in the third week, the discussions are beginning to hot up. Read more...

After long and hard negotiations the concession to build Norway’s new digital television network has gone to NTV (Norges Televisjon), owned jointly by the three terrestrial channels. Read more...