The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications has launched a consultation on the allocation of 40.660–40.690 MHz for private radio stations. The band would be used by radio amateurs for individual training and technical studies on radio wave propagation. Currently radio amateurs can transmit in 28.0–29.7 MHz, 50.0–52.0 MHz… Read more...

The current mobile bands include both new spectrum suitable for 5G and a wide range of older low and mid-bands used to develop mobile operators’ 2G, 3G and 4G networks. Read more...

The European Commission outlined three pillars to support the future of spectrum policy at the 18th annual European spectrum management conference in Brussels. Read more...

The country’s first attempt to award new spectrum in more than a decade ended in failure when none of the country’s mobile network operators (MNOs) chose to bid. Read more...

Defence ministries around the world control a significant amount of spectrum. Thanks to advances in spectrum sharing, there is an opportunity to share some of these frequencies with commercial users, particularly from the mobile industry. In the past, defence users have generally been unwilling to give up or share their… Read more...

Defence ministries around the world control a significant amount of spectrum. Thanks to advances in spectrum sharing, there is an opportunity to share some of these frequencies with commercial users, particularly from the mobile industry. But are defence users willing allies? Read more...

Spectrum policy can help tackle climate change, but only if enough spectrum is assigned in a timely and flexible manner to enable the adoption of the newest and most efficient mobile technologies. That's the view of mobile industry association the GSMA. Read more...

PolicyTracker’s 2023 country profiles cover Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, the UK and the US. In this overview we analyse their spectrum release plans; approach to 6 GHz; policy on private networks; and plans for 6G. Read more...

Amid the woes of the "Big Tech" companies in 2022, including wide-scale layoffs and project scale-backs, in 2023, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft continue to advance spectrum policy agendas across an array of spectrum bands and sectors. Spectrum sharing and unlicensed spectrum are high on the spectrum policy agendas of… Read more...

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