The Ministry of Science and ICT’s four-year spectrum plan includes releasing frequencies for new services such as "urban air mobility" (UAM). Read more...

While more operators commit to climate targets and test energy-saving solutions, energy consumption is not going down and is expected to increase in the near future. Read more...

A new World Health Organization-backed study has found no link between mobile phones, masts and base stations and brain and childhood cancers. Read more...

There is continued growing momentum in the assignment of spectrum for private networks, with 53 nations in all regions of the world now actively planning and implementing policies for localised spectrum use across an array of spectrum bands. Read more...

Nations in Europe represent 49 per cent of nations globally that have assigned or plan to assign spectrum for private networks. Since PolicyTracker’s last private networks benchmark, published in June 2023, there has been a great deal of activity across Europe with new assignments planned in countries that have already… Read more...

Several nations in the Americas that have assigned spectrum for private networks are now planning to assign additional spectrum resources across a growing array of spectrum bands targeted for local use in the region. Brazil, Canada, Colombia and the US are also pursuing new spectrum sharing frameworks for third party… Read more...

Nations in Asia, Africa and the Middle East represent thirty-eight percent of global policy developments in the assignment and planned assignment of spectrum for use by private networks. New countries added to the benchmark in the Middle East are Israel, Oman, Qatar and the UAE, while Namibia and Somalia are… Read more...

As nations around the world continue to assign spectrum for private localised use, there is interest in a wide range of bands and significant fragmentation across frequency ranges targeted within bands and across countries and regions. There is also wide variance in the amount of spectrum that different countries are… Read more...

The ACCC has given the go-ahead to network and spectrum-sharing agreements between Optus and TPG Telecom, the country’s second and third largest MNOs. Read more...

ANE has published a draft resolution for public comment. Read more...