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The FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau wants to explore whether using 700 MHz narrowband spectrum for broadband services would be operationally feasible and technically compatible with existing and future public safety narrowband operations. The Bureau is also inviting comment from stakeholders on potential conditions or restrictions on flexible… Read more...
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Ofcom is conducting what should be the final consultation before the UK implements an EC Directive ordering liberalisation of the 900 and 1800 MHz bands, which are currently reserved for GSM. Subject to responses to this consultation, and the passage of a government direction now before Parliament, Ofcom intends to… Read more...
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Mexican regulator the Federal Telecommunications Commission (COFETEL) has launched a public consultation on the best ways to make use of, and to allocate, the country's proposed digital dividend in the 700 MHz band, the AWS band at 1.7/2.1 GHz and the 3.4 - 3.7 GHZ band. COFETEL wants to hear… Read more...
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The Canadian regulator's parent body is inviting comments on its proposals for a policy and technical framework to auction spectrum in the 698 - 806 MHz band. There will be a separate consultation on the 2500 - 2690 GHz band and stakeholders' views are also sought on whether government measures… Read more...
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The Office of the Telecommunications Authority of Hong Kong has issued a consultation paper to solicit public views on the proposed auction of spectrum in the 850 MHz, 900 MHz and 2 GHz bands. Under the proposal, one frequency block of 2 x 5 MHz in the 850 MHz band,… Read more...
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Following the November 30 deadline for written responses to its consultation paper , the NCC has set a deadline of December 7th for the submission of replies to the responses. There will then be a physical consultation open to the public on December 16, with major stakeholders entitled to a… Read more...
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The RSPG is seeking views on its draft work programme for 2010 before it is finalised. The draft includes: Drawing up the first Multiannual Radio Spectrum Policy Programme. Topics are likely to be technology neutrality, service neutrality, flexible spectrum management, promotion of spectrum trading and common policy objectives to improve spectrum efficiency. Common approaches to the… Read more...
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Industry Canada has asked for comments on how it should proceed to meet the international guidelines and move to broadband radio service licences, opening up the 2500 - 2690 MHz band to two-way systems that can provide high-speed and high-capacity broadband service such as wireless Internet access, voice-over-IP, high-speed data… Read more...
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The UK regulator has issued a consultation paper in which it seeks comment from all telecoms and broadcast stakeholders on how to proceed with gathering information for a new three-yearly mandatory report to the government on the UK's communications infrastructure. The first report is due to be submitted in August… Read more...
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The US regulator is conducting its annual consultation, and the first since the government launched its new broadband initiative, to determine whether broadband is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion. Comment is sought from companies, policy institutes, governmental entities, analysts, consumer groups, individual broadband consumers… Read more...