As part of its continuing effort to free up spectrum for mobile broadband, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is consulting on how to promote interoperability in the commercial Lower 700 MHz band and on removing barriers to flexible use of 40 MHz in the 2 GHz band currently licensed… Read more...

The Canadian regulator plans to auction the 700 MHz band in 2013 and 2.5 GHz spectrum the following year. Auction rules will include spectrum caps and rural deployment conditions. Read more...

Up to a million wireless microphone users have been given until June this year by US regulator the FCC to vacate the 700 MHz Digital Dividend spectrum which is to be used for the provision of 4G wireless broadband services. Read more...

There has been an enthusiastic response to Mexico’s upcoming auction of 120 MHz of spectrum in the 1.7 and 1.9 GHz bands, with this possibly being the last chance for new entrants in the country’s cellular market. Read more...

The US regulator has given itself four months to come up with new proposals for D-block, the spectrum which failed to sell at last year's 700MHz auction. The FCC still favours a public/private partnership but the policy-making process is being hampered by a lack of consensus among the public safety… Read more...

The credit crunch may have undermined public faith in market economics but moves towards greater spectrum liberalisation seem unaffected. There are no signs of policy u-turns in Europe and spectrum trading in the US continues to grow. Read more...

It’s now official: the US switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting is to be delayed from February 17 to June 12 following the second vote in a week in the House of Representatives. Read more...

It was hyped as the “hundred-year auction”, selling off large chunks of prime spectrum freed up by the switch from analogue to digital broadcasting, but the jury is still out on many aspects of last March’s US 700MHz auction. Read more...

The new proposals for auctioning D Block in the US seem to be as highly politicised as the proposals for rescuing Wall Street, which were being discussed by lawmakers at the same time. Read more...

Should the company hoping to provide free wireless broadband have to pay for the spectrum? Will the offering interfere with existing mobile services? Just some of the questions holding up the release of AWS-3 spectrum in the US Read more...