Brazilian regulator Anatel has ruled that MMDS operators who previously held the whole of the 2500-2690 MHz band should receive compensation of 314 million reals ($151 million). Read more...

The Venezuelan government has been making progress in its spectrum allocation programme with two recent developments. Read more...

UK regulator Ofcom announced this morning that the country’s “4G” auction is underway, with all seven bidders that qualified to take part still involved in the process. Read more...

Results of the Romanian multi-band 4G auction which started on September 12 have been announced by regulator ANCOM, with all five participants winning lots and paying a total of €682 million for 485 MHz of spectrum. The big surprise was the amount of 2.6 GHz spectrum remaining unsold. Read more...

Following a flurry of activity late last year and early this year as South African regulator ICASA tried to push through its proposals for the assignment by beauty contest of 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum, the whole process is now on indefinite hold. Read more...

The Canadian regulator plans to auction the 700 MHz band in 2013 and 2.5 GHz spectrum the following year. Auction rules will include spectrum caps and rural deployment conditions. Read more...

The Polish regulator has announced the proposals it will be putting forward to the government, complementing the existing plan to sell 1800 MHz at the end of this year. Read more...

Latvia's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) sucessfully auctioned four out of five available blocks of spectrum in the 2.6 GHz band in a two-day auction held on 2-3 January in the capital city of Riga. The auction was for 15-year licences to use the frequencies starting from 1 January 2014. Read more...

Spain’s ministry of industry, tourism and communications (MITYC) has completed its latest spectrum auction, allocating frequencies in the 900 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands that were left unsold at the end of its previous auction held in July. Read more...

Spain’s ministry of industry, tourism and communications (MITYC) has completed its latest spectrum auction, allocating frequencies in the 900 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands that were left unsold at the end of its previous auction held in July. Read more...