In keeping with the lighter touch, Ofcom is proposing four options for the future of licensing radio amateurs:1. The first option (considered the most likely) is to issue licenses for life.The other three alternatives are:i. Wireless Telegraphy Act licence exemptionii.Maintain the existing licensing regime but with an extended renewal periodiii.… Read more...

Ofcom is inviting comments on their proposals to extend existing charge controls in the 2G mobile voice call termination market for a further 12 months to 31 March 2007. More generally Ofcom is seeking views on how regulation might be applied to this market from April 2007 and whether technological… Read more...

ARCEP is proposing that the protocols SPIROU and SSUTR2 should be used to transmit location information to enable the emergency services to ascertain where the VoIP subscriber is calling from. Read more...

Call for comments on a draft decision concerning access and call origination on public mobile telephone networks Read more...

OFCOM is inviting comments on a series of proposals concerning the national numering plan; the use of three figure numbers; shortened numbers for directory services and number portability. Read more...

ARCEP is inviting comments on its analysis of the fixed line market before notifying the European Commission in mid-July. In September ARCEP expects to takeover from the government responsibility for tariff control and to require France Telecom to publish reference offers for interconnection and wholesale access. Read more...

(i)draft Recommendation on Early access for the Amateur service to the band 7100-7200 kHz.(ii) a Draft ECC Decision (05)HH on harmonised frequencies, technical characteristics, exemption from individual licensing and free carriage and use of digital PMR446 applications operating in the frequency band 446.100-446.200 MHz(iii)draft recommendation on CEPT Novice Radio Amateur… Read more...

Three options presented for review of the band:(i)Divide frequencies in the band between point to multipoint systems and point-to-point sysetms.(ii)Divide frequencies in the band between individual frequency assignments and block frequency assigments on a national or regional basis. (iii)Open the whole block for national or regional spectrum block assignment earmarking… Read more...

Inviting views on draft strategy statement which considers the rapidly changing electronic communications market. Objectives include:i. Promoting competitionii. Developing the internal marketiii. Effectively managing the spectrum ..etc. Read more...

RRT to conduct market analysis in tandem with the European Regulators Group diccussions on a common European position. Read more...