PolicyTracker predicts the year will be dominated by RRC-06; the decision on technology neutrality in 2.5 GHz and the review of the Communciations Framework Directive. Read more...

A commitment to some form of liberalisation has moved from aberration to orthodoxy among Europe’s regulators Read more...

The Federal Network Agency is offering licences in the 3400 to 3600 MHz band on a technology neutral basis, a move it is hailing as a “further step in achieving flexible spectrum management.” Read more...

Those sceptical about the practicalities of getting the military to give up frequencies for commercial use may take heart from the scale of the financial incentives proposed in Professor Martin Cave’s review of UK public sector spectrum. Read more...

The European Commission’s Radio Spectrum Policy Group has published its opinion on WAPECS but does the Radio Spectrum Committee have the guts to makes concrete progress with this new approach? Read more...

Hopes for increased stability, investment and development in West Africa are pinned to a new telecommunications regulatory framework but at the moment the agreement on the table raises more questions than answers. Read more...

Ofcom is bullish about the success of spectrum trading even though the scheme has been in place for for nearly a year without a completed ‘pure spectrum’ transaction. Read more...

A study into the possibility of band sharing between Ultra Wide Band devices and the Radio Astronomy Service (RAS) in the UK has concluded that more work is required. Read more...

The European economy may lose billions unless the region develops a common position on the digital dividend. Read more...

Spectrum management reform has been placed centre stage in recent weeks but certain unnatural bedfellows will need to start cosying up together if the debate is to move to the next level. Read more...