Microsoft has teamed up with local partners to launch a pilot project in Kenya that will use TV white spaces to deliver low-cost wireless broadband access in previously unserved areas. The company has also launched a new spectrum observatory in Brussels. Read more...

Broadcasters and wireless microphone operators remain cautious about FCC incentive auction plans, but there's strong support from the wireless and other sectors for more unlicensed spectrum, responses filed in the agency's rulemaking proceeding show. The big unknown continues to be if, and how many, broadcasters will relinquish spectrum. Read more...

700 MHz frequency release could transform the mobile and broadcast market but it may also accelerate changes in consumer behaviour, shift the global balance of power among manufacturers and have unexpected impacts in seemingly distant sectors. Read more...

Some argue there is a greater need than ever before for exclusivity in the form of liberal licences, while others say the focus must be on new models for spectrum access. Read more...

An EU regulators report says we should be thinking about the whole range of collective uses of spectrum and it proposes four criteria for deciding whether more frequencies need to be made available. Read more...

Microsoft says its whitespace prototype does work and poor FCC test results were caused by a faulty device. Broadcasters cry foul and respond with TV ads warning that whitespace devices will ruin the reception on digital sets. Read more...

The FCC is testing specifications for a cognitive radio device which six giants of the IT industry claim will enable the transmission of a wireless broadband service without interfering with digital TV signals. Read more...

The European Commission’s search for unifying general principles to cover the wireless sector has thrown up some familiar questions particularly the use of spectrum by the military. Read more...