Ofcom has published a consultation on increasing the power levels below which devices will be exempt from licensing in the frequency bands above 10GHz. The regulator argues that the current power limits on UWB below 10GHz could be extrapolated proportionately into the higher bands without causing harmful interference. Read more...

Ofcom is proposing introducing a new licence for spectrum users. The ‘innovation licence’ is designed to allow organisations to rapidly launch commercial services that do not easily fit within one of Ofcom's existing licence classes. In the first instance the innovation licence would be for public sector spectrum like that… Read more...

Following a request from the BBC Ofcom has begun a technical consultation on the process for temporarily assigning analogue interleaved frequencies (470-862MHz) in a number of key metropolitan areas. The consultation focuses on how to protect existing spectrum users. These temporary assignments could allow for the early introduction of new… Read more...

Interested parties are being asked to comment on the amendments to the ECC Decision on the harmonised use of airborne GSM systems. Read more...

ERO has proposed amendments to the EEC decision on EFIS which would expand the database to also include national rights of use information in frequency bands where spectrum trading is allowed. Read more...

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...