Belgian telecoms regulator BIPT has requested stakeholders for comments on Federal Minister Vincent van Quickenbome's plan to alter laws and royal decrees relating to GSM and UMTS licenses.  The Minister proposes to extend the three existing operators' GSM licenses from the end of 2015 to the start of 2021. A… Read more...

The Greek regulator has issued a consultation concerning the future of the 1800 MHz band.  Three mobile network operators, Cosmote, Vodafone, and Wind, currently own licences in the band. Licences belonging to the latter two operators expire in 2016 whereas a licence held by Cosmote only expires in 2020. Bearing… Read more...

The UK regulator is consulting on a draft Statutory Instrument (SI) to make into law a set of regulations governing the prevention of interference at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London between July 26 and September 10, 2012. The proposed regulations will determine the intensity of the electromagnetic energy… Read more...

The ECC's Working Group on Spectrum Engineering has issued ECC Report 207 for public consultation. The document sets out the European technical body's views on coexistence between short range devices (SRDs) and LTE, which in some places is used in the bands immediately below 863 MHz. Coexistence has been a… Read more...

The FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau wants to explore whether using 700 MHz narrowband spectrum for broadband services would be operationally feasible and technically compatible with existing and future public safety narrowband operations. The Bureau is also inviting comment from stakeholders on potential conditions or restrictions on flexible… Read more...

The Australian regulator is proposing changes to the regulations governing agreements between radiocommunications licensees and third parties for the use of spectrum and apparatus licences. The consultation document sets out a number of possible ways in which the "revoke at will" requirements which are currently imposed on third party authorisations… Read more...

Ofcom is conducting what should be the final consultation before the UK implements an EC Directive ordering liberalisation of the 900 and 1800 MHz bands, which are currently reserved for GSM. Subject to responses to this consultation, and the passage of a government direction now before Parliament, Ofcom intends to… Read more...

Mexican regulator the Federal Telecommunications Commission (COFETEL) has launched a public consultation on the best ways to make use of, and to allocate, the country's proposed digital dividend in the 700 MHz band, the AWS band at 1.7/2.1 GHz and the 3.4 - 3.7 GHZ band. COFETEL wants to hear… Read more...

The Hong Kong regulator is consulting both stakeholders and members of the public on the proposed implementation of a charging scheme in respect of spectrum utilisation fees (SUF) for spectrum assigned administratively. The consultation document outlines the government's proposals on the imposition of SUF, the relevant guiding principles and the… Read more...

The European Communications Committee has put a document out to consultation that provides further technical characteristics relating to hand‑held reception of TV, audio, datacast and multimedia services and Programme Making and Special Events (PMSE). These are systems that have been identified as potential users of the L-band for which the… Read more...