Ofcom has launched a call for inputs which it hopes will help improve its understanding of the role end-user mobile coverage enhancers could play in improving indoor mobile coverage. Such solutions could sit alongside others such as femtocells and smart repeaters. The regulator is seeking to establish whether end-user repeaters… Read more...

The inter-governmental group that advises the European Commission on radio spectrum policy matters, the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) has issued a consultation on its draft work programme for 2016 and beyond. It has identified the following areas to work on: Digital Single Market - Telecoms Regulatory Framework issuesSpectrum related… Read more...

In the consultation document, the UK regulator has laid out the general principles and methodology it uses to set spectrum fees, and then explained how it proposes to set spectrum charges in future. According to Ofcom, the document is intended to clarify and consult on issues that stakeholders have raised… Read more...

Ofcom has issued a consultation on the draft regulations it needs to make in order to incorporate its decision to extend the use of Recognised Spectrum Access for receive-only earth stations (ROES) to the 7850 - 7900 MHz and 25.5 - 26.5 GHz bands. RSA is a kind of proto-licence… Read more...

The WGSE has issued ECC Report 227 to a public consultation. The draft Report concerns compatibility for Mobile/Fixed Communication Networks (MFCN) Supplemental Downlink (SDL). It includes studies of SDL's compatibility with broadcasting and aeronautical telemetry services operating co-channel and in adjacent channels. Read more...

Update - November 6: Ofcom has published additional data about its spectrum management costs and invoiced fees. It has extended the deadline until December 18 in order to allow stakeholders to respond to the additional data.  A spokesperson for Ofcom told PolicyTracker that the information had been requested by a stakeholder… Read more...

The UK regulator has launched a consultation on proposals to liberalise all mobile licences in the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz bands to permit the deployment of 4G services and to vary the permitted base station transmit power for UMTS and 4G technology in the 900 MHz band. This… Read more...

The British regulator is proposing to vary the 3G mobile licences of the five licence holders to increase the permitted base station power limits from 62dBm to 68dBm. The consultation is in reponse to an initial request from Vodafone to have its power limits increased to 65dBm. Ofcom then held… Read more...

Ofcom is consulting again on the potential uses for the 600 MHz band and white spaces which will be available as part of the digital dividend. Circumstances have changed since the 2008 consultation, particularly the decision to align the upper 800 MHz band in line with EC proposals, and as… Read more...

Europe's technical authority, the ECC, has issued ECC Decision (16)AA to a public consultation. This decision establishes the 76 - 77 GHz band as a pan-European band that is available for obstacle-avoidance radar for helicopters, and sets out some of the technical conditions associated with using this spectrum for this… Read more...