The Portuguese regulator is proposing to hold a combined auction of several spectrum bands it considers suitable for LTE in June this year. Frequencies will be on offer in the 450 MHz, 800 Mhz, 900 MHz, 1800 Mhz, 2.1 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands. Some of this will be new… Read more...

The Venezuelan regulator has launched a brief consultation on how best to use the 2.6 GHz band in future. Several Venezuelan operators were previously issued with WiMAX licences in the band and in mid-2007 Movilmax launched commercial operations, passing 10,000 WiMAX subscribers in 2011. In April 2012 Movilmax announced it had scrapped… Read more...

Europe's technical authority, the ECC has issued a consultation about a revision it plans to make to ECC Decision (08)08.  This revision includes updates for the use of mobile services in the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, and 2.6 GHz bands on board vessels. In particular, the ECC seeks comments on… Read more...

Reacting to a Direction from the UK government, Ofcom has set out its proposals for making the licences for 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2.1 GHz spectrum tradable. The first proposal is to allow all types of trade permitted by the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 to create maximum flexibility for… Read more...

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 Greek regulator has launched a final public consultation on the spectrum auction for the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands. Stakeholders have just one week to respond. The regulator says the text of the consultation takes into account the comments of all interested parties received in previous consultations. It… Read more...

Following its strategy plan for the 1800 MHz band which was released in October 2012, the Australian regulator has issued the first of three planned consultation documents and invited stakeholders to respond to each as they are published, although the final one is not expected to be released until June… Read more...

This is the second of three consultation papers the Australian regulator is publishing on developing a spectrum management strategy for the 1800 MHz band. The ACMA is seeking the views of stakeholders, particularly prospective licensees, on the current and possible future licensing arrangements in the 1800 MHz band. To aid stakeholders… Read more...

The ACMA has issued a consultation on auctioning spectrum in the frequency ranges 1725–1785 MHz and 1820–1880 MHz in regional Australia. The auction will also include unallocated spectrum from the recently completed expiring spectrum licence process for the 1800 MHz band (‘residual lots’). The ACMA is inviting written comments from stakeholders on the draft… Read more...

German telecoms regulator BNetzA has published a key elements paper for consultation to determine future frequency requirements in the recently-liberalised 900 and 1800 MHz bands. Alongside this, it has published a draft consultation on its frequency allotment study in the 900 MHz band. Following on from its "super auction" last… Read more...