by Toby Youell
France's mobile operators have agreed to pay €2.796 billion for 2 x 30 MHz in the 700 MHz band after a two-day allocation round of a first price package clock auction. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The South African regulator’s plans for a simultaneous multi-round auction (SMRA) of three bands in the coming months includes a 2 x 20 MHz block in the 700 MHz band that is to be used for a wholesale network. Read more...
by Toby Youell
An extraordinary meeting of the CEPT Working Group Frequency Management (WGFM) has approved ECC Report 218 for publication. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The ITU’s Radiocommunication Assembly (RA-15) managed to reach political agreement last week on two ITU Recommendations that the relevant study group had not agreed on. It also reached an agreement on focussing the ITU’s activities on various priorities in the next few years. Read more...
by Toby Youell
If WRC-15 decides to identify spectrum in the 700/800 MHz band for LTE-based public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) networks, it could secure the commercial viability of the PPDR sector. Read more...
by Toby Youell
European ministries of the interior, commercial suppliers and industry associations have jointly rejected a German proposal to provide a 2 x 10 MHz block of spectrum for broadband public protection and disaster relief (PPDR) services in the 700 MHz duplex gap. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Indian government has started the process of assigning the 700 MHz band by asking the country's regulator for guidance on how it should price the band. Read more...
by Toby Youell
South Korea has the 2018 Winter Olympics, Japan has the 2020 Summer Olympics, but Europe lacks meaningful targets for 5G network deployment. That's according to Thibaut Kleiner, head of the unit in charge of network technologies at DG Connect, which is part of the European Commission. Read more...
by Toby Youell
Amidst heightened security concerns, the French government has decided to reserve 2 x 8 MHz of spectrum for LTE-based PPDR as part of their arrangements for the upcoming 700 MHz band assignment. Read more...
by Toby Youell
European administrations have agreed to oppose adding a series of key bands to the list of those allocated to mobile and identified for IMT at this year’s World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15). Read more...