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...

The UK regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on its planned auction of 190 MHz in the 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz bands. The consultation is part of the Public Sector Spectrum Release programme, which concerns a 40 MHz block in the 2.3 GHz band, and 150 MHz of spectrum in the… Read more...

The ECC has issued a Report on mobile coverage to a consultation.  The Report considers how spectrum licences are written to achieve policy goals regarding mobile coverage.  It concludes that each administration has its own methods and that a harmonised approach is largely inappropriate. Read more...

The UK regulator is consulting stakeholders on its proposals to make changes to spectrum management policy across a number of bands between 1.5 GHz and 88 GHz that are currently available to fixed links. A total bandwidth of 12 GHz spread across 14 different bands is managed by Ofcom, with… Read more...

Ofcom is consulting on minor amendments to the existing Wireless Telegraphy licence principal order, which came into force on 9 April 2014. The principal order details the UK’s arrangements for spectrum authorisation, particularly the limitations imposed on the number of licences to be granted. This includes the criteria applied by Ofcom… Read more...

Although any changes to the allocation of the 700 MHz band are probably years away, Ofcom is conducting a preliminary consultation on re-assigning the band from digital terrestrial TV (DTT) to use for wireless mobile broadband in line with international and European harmonisation plans. In order to ensure the number… Read more...