by Richard Haas
The Indian telecoms regulator, TRAI, is consulting on using street furniture to provide telecom services. Street furniture is a term used to describe objects placed or fixed in the street for public use, such as postboxes, road signs, and benches. TRAI says that using this infrastructure for 5G deployment "could… Read more...
by Richard Haas
The UK regulator, Ofcom, is consulting on proposed changes to its mobile repeater licence exemption rules. Initially introduced in 2018, these rules allow people to use mobile repeaters without a licence. These repeaters need to abide by certain rules. Ofcom says it wants to change said rules to allow for… Read more...
by Richard Haas
The Swedish regulator, the PTS, has published a consultation on a coordination agreement reached with Denmark regarding the 900 MHz band. The agreement sets out that the band can be used without coordination if base stations do not produce more than a certain threshold of electromagnetic field strength. Further coordination… Read more...
by Richard Haas
The Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority (BICMA) has published a consultation on freeing up the 2.3 GHz band for 4G use. The regulator says that other markets already use this band for 4G and compatible devices are already in circulation in Bhutan. BICMA is proposing that a total of 80… Read more...
by Richard Haas
Speaking at an event organised by UK regulator Ofcom, representatives from BT in the UK and Verizon in the US agreed that the higher spectrum bands are important but device support and assignments are still lacking. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sparked action by Europe's telecoms organisation CEPT and could affect the upcoming election for ITU secretary-general. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The histories of spectrum policy and the mobile industry are closely intertwined. Much of the news in radio spectrum is driven by the stakeholders with the deepest pockets: mobile operators. Mobile operators' business strategies and technology focusses vary, but they all need spectrum. How they obtain that spectrum depends on… Read more...
by Richard Haas
Rita Wezenbeek of the European Commission suggested that these wide-ranging voluntary initiatives could soon receive public support. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
As the world begins to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, mobile operators have turned their attention back to network-building. There is also an increased focus among some on open access radio networks (Open RAN), as well as on 6G-related activities. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
América Movíl provides telecommunications services in 25 countries in the Americas, the Caribbean and Central and Eastern Europe. It continues to build out its networks and, on 22 February 2022, announced the launch of of 5G services in 18 Mexican cities, soon after being granted authority to use 3.5 GHz… Read more...