France's regulator has launched a public consultation on the terms and methods for lifting the GSM-only restriction attached to 1800 MHz band frequency licences. At the time of writing, the consultation document is only available in French. Bouygues Telecom, the licence holder in the band, has applied to ARCEP for… Read more...

The Working Group Frequency Management has issued ECC Report 204 for a public consultation. The report provides a broad review of spectrum use by PMSE applications, including the possible use of the 800 MHz duplex gaps for Audio PMSE. Read more...

The Irish regulator is consulting on the release and assignment of rights of use of spectrum in the 800 MHz band (the digital dividend, which will be available in early 2013) and the 900 MHz band. A total of 130 MHz of prime sub-1 GHz spectrum will be available on… Read more...