The Working Group for Spectrum Engineering, within the ECC, has issued Recommendation (14) 06 for public consultation. The document concerns Fixed Service Point-to-Point narrow channels in the guard bands and centre gaps of the lower and upper 6 GHz bands. The Recommendation acknowledges CEPT/ERC/Recommendations on the same subject, and contains annexes with relevant channeling… Read more...

The UK regulator is proposing to extend spectrum trading to the Maritime and Satellite Earth Station sectors. The extension of spectrum trading to these sectors in part of Ofcom's programme to to roll out the ability to trade across all of its licence products. Since spectrum trading was first introduced… Read more...

Ofcom has issued a consultation on its intention to include several additional spectrum bands within the Mobile Trading Regulations sooner than originally planned.  The regulations allow Ofcom to consider the impact on competition before approving the trade of spectrum within the relevant bands. The bands were due to come under… Read more...

The UK telecommunications regulator has issued a consultation in order to gain stakeholders views on the demand for spectrum sharing and the most effective ways to do it. It wants to improve its understanding of four issues: how spectrum sharing can be used to support future Wi-Fi use; how it… Read more...

The WGFM has issued Recommendation (08)01 to consultation. The proposed changes to the document concern ECC Report 228, which reviewed compatibility studies between ITS in the 5855 - 5925 MHz band and other services in adjacent bands. Read more...

WGFM has issued Recommendation 54-01 to consultation. The consultation concerns technical changes to the common measurement method that CEPT administrations use to measure frequency deviation of FM broadcast emissions. Read more...

The UK regulator is seeking comment on its detailed proposals for the forthcoming 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz combined auction which will see 250 MHz of new spectrum released onto the market, probably in the first quarter of 2012. Ofcom has produced a plan which it believes will ensure the… Read more...

The ECC's Working Group Spectrum Engineering has issued ECC Report 246 to a public consultation. The Report complements ECC Report 200, which has opened up the 870 - 876 and 915 - 921 MHZ bands for Short Range Devices and Radio Frequency Identification applications. The new report, which is only… Read more...

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published a consultation paper on its mobile data strategy that identifies several bands it thinks can be used for mobile data. In particular, Ofcom says its priority is to consider the use of the 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz bands, TV white spaces in the UHF broadcasting… Read more...

UK regulator Ofcom has issued a consultation on its intention to amend the regulations to reflect decisions it has already made about the spectrum fees. Specifically, the document deals with Ofcom's 2011 Decision regarding AIP for aeronautical licences, a 2013 Decision regarding AIP for point to point fixed links in the 70/80 GHz band… Read more...