by Michael Newlands
An exact picture will only emerge when Ofcom releases more details about the UK 4G auction but at the moment values seem to be lower than comparable European countries. Read more...
by Jonathan Watson
UK public broadcaster the BBC has renewed its call for the regulator Ofcom to abandon its plan to make the corporation pay for the spectrum it uses. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
UK regulator Ofcom announced this morning that the country’s “4G” auction is underway, with all seven bidders that qualified to take part still involved in the process. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Plans by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) to clear and auction around 200 MHz of spectrum may hint at a role for the regulator Ofcom in the process. That's according to Charles Gay of Espirito, a company specialising in commercialisation through sharing of public sector spectrum. Ofcom, however, sees… Read more...
by Michael Newlands
The UK government’s prediction that it will be able to raise £3.5 billion from an auction of 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum early in 2013 looks rather optimistic when compared to the sums raised in similar recent auctions. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
As the momentum builds towards the release of a second digital dividend (DD2) in the 700 MHz band in Europe and some other regions where the first dividend is at 800 MHz, the programme making and special events (PMSE) industry has claimed this will destroy “Cultural Europe”. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
The UK's shift from analogue to digital TV ended quietly and successfully on 23 October. The big question now is what changes will digital convergence bring and when. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
The concept of spectrum usage rights, licensing that specifies the maximum level of interference allowed rather than the power that can be transmitted, may have faltered in Europe but it's attracting attention in the US due, in part, to the LightSquared/GPS debacle. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
UK regulator Ofcom has just published its latest report on the findings of its research into whether and how LTE user equipment in the top part of the 800 MHz digital dividend band can coexist with equipment in the neighbouring band. The short-range device (SRD) industry strongly disputes its optimistic… Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
QUASAR reports on the business and regulatory case for services using secondary access to spectrum such as TV white spaces are useful but flawed, several observers told PolicyTracker. Read more...