by Toby Youell
Kosovo's regulator, ARKEP, has issued a consultation on its proposals for licence renewal in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands. These proposals include the question of licence fees. Stakeholders have until June 22 to react to this consultation. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Belgian regulator, the BIPT, has issued a public consultation on its draft decision on coexistence within the 900 MHz band between GSM-R and public mobile broadband networks. GSM-R, used by the country's rail networks, uses the 876.1 - 879.9 MHz paired with 921.1 - 924.9 MHz. The adjacent 880.1… Read more...
by Toby Youell
April 10, 2019 Update: the FCC has clarified that interested parties on this matter may file comments by June 3, and that replies to those comments are due July 2. April 3, 2019 The FCC has published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on allowing broadband access in the 900 MHz… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Irish regulator, ComReg, is consulting on its mid-term review of its five year electronic communications services strategy. The draft statement includes a discussion of spectrum policy, including potentially opening up several bands above 95 GHz for terrestrial fixed links, and taking necessary measures to enable Machine-to-Machine communications in the… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Moldovan regulator, the ANRCETI, has launched a public consultation on a draft administrative board decision on the methodology for measuring and assessing the quality parameters for publicly available mobile services in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2.1 GHz, and 2.6 GHz bands. This methodology is intended to… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on several proposals that would allow greater spectrum sharing. This includes allowing companies to make simple requests to Ofcom for spectrum access within specific locations across three bands: DECT Guard Band (1781.7 - 1785 MHz + 1876.7 - 1880 MHz), 2390… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Peru's Ministry of Transport and Communications has issued a consultation on proposed spectrum caps. The caps would prevent a single entity from holding more than 140 MHz of low-band spectrum and more than 120 MHz of mid-band spectrum. Low-band spectrum is defined as the 450 MHz, 700 MHz, 800 MHz,… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Kosovo's regulator, ARKEP, has issued a consultation on its plans to award the 800 MHz, 900 MHz, and 1800 MHz bands. It plans to award the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands for 2G, 3G, 4G, and IoT services, while it plans to award the 800 MHz band for mobile… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Norway's regulator, NKOM, has issued a consultation on its planned auction of rights to use the 700 MHz and 900 MHz bands offshore. A total of 2 x 30 MHz shall be made available in the 700 MHz band from November 2019, which is when digital terrestrial television services will… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The CEPT seeks views on potential changes to ECC Recommendation (08)02, which concerns cross-border coordination between GSM/UMTS/LTE/WiMAX systems within the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands, excluding coordination between GSM systems. In particular, the CEPT is consulting on potential changes to the narrowband v wideband scenario. The draft revision to… Read more...