The ECC's Working Group on Frequency Management has issued a consultation on ECC Report 218 on Broadband for Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) services.  This report sets out opinions on various aspects of the future deployment of wireless broadband technologies for PPDR. This includes the view that future networks… Read more...

Ofcom has issued a consultation concerning the regulation it needs to make in order to hold its planned auction of the 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz bands. The document contains details about how Ofcom plans to manage the planned auction. The consultation paper includes a draft of the regulations that… Read more...

Following a consultation in July 2012 on Licence Exemption of Wireless Telegraphy Devices, the UK regulator has published a decision covering most of the points in the consultation document but has also launched a new consultation. This is on a further proposal to revise the current 10.577 to 10.597 GHz radio-determination… Read more...

WGFM has issued Draft Recommendation (15)01 to a public consultation. The Recommendation concerns the cross-border aspects of any implementation of mobile broadband, which is more accurately referred to by the CEPT as MFCN, in both the L-band and the C-band. Read more...

CEPT's European Communications Committee (ECC) has published a draft decision on the harmonised use of 1452-1492 MHz for mobile/fixed communications networks supplemental downlink (MFCN SDL). Following a two-week notification phase, during which time the text may be amended, the draft decision will proceed to a public consultation lasting at least… Read more...

Europe's technical authority has issued Draft ECC Report 237 to a public consultation. The document proposes to prevent harmful interference to land-based mobile networks from Mobile Communications on board Vessels systems by changing some of the latter's system parameters. Read more...

Europe technical authority, the ECC, has issued a consultation on a proposed amendment to the document that governs the use of the 2.6 GHz band for mobile broadband. The ECC's proposed amendment concerns the withdrawal of Decision (02)06, which is now considered superfluous as Decision (05)05 incorporates content from the… Read more...

Europe's technical authority has issued a consultation concerning guidance on how mobile broadband and PMSE users can both use the 2.3 GHz band under a Licensed Shared Access system. This system is set out in draft ECC Recommendation (15)04. Read more...

Ofcom has issued another consultation concerning the annual licence fees it wishes to set for the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands. The regulator wishes to increase the total fees for the band from £64.5 million to £246.8 million.  These calculations are now based on an Annual Licence Fee of £1.57 million… Read more...

This report aims to investigate the impact of introducing LTE technology into Broadband PPDR within the 410-430 MHz and 450-470 MHz bands.  It includes several impact analyses and simulations on most legacy systems in operation (for those sub-bands) and also for most systems in operation for the adjacent bands. The report… Read more...