by Richard Haas
The announcement was one of many made by FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel during her keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Radio Regulations, the UN level treaty document that provides a framework for global spectrum management, is up for review at the end of next year at the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23). Although the Radio Regulations are sometimes ignored, the process of agreeing possible amendments forms a key part of… Read more...
by Richard Handford
Market leader Telstra will give smaller rival TPG access to its 4G/5G network in a broad area of the country outside the largest cities while TPG will share its 4G/5G spectrum with its larger peer in the same zone. Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
This second Note examines further topics relating to the reform of WRCs. Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
Is the WRC process broken? Views on this perennial question are country-, stakeholder- and issue-dependent, calling for a balanced analysis of the complex and often controversial spectrum management matters that the ITU seeks to mediate, and ultimately resolve. In two Research Notes we examine key criticisms of the WRC process,… Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
This note provides an overview of the status of the preparations of regional organisations on science-related WRC-23 Agenda Items and Topics. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The satellite agenda items aim to increase the amount of spectrum available for satellite services and/or to relax the rules associated with these allocations. Three of them (AI 1.16, 1.17, and 1.19) directly respond to the growing demand for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mega-constellations. Read more...
by Dianne Northfield
WRC-23 will consider a range of transport-related Agenda Items, some of which are framed to modernize outdated Radio Regulations. As regional organisations continue preparations for WRC-23, high-level consensus on these items is shaping. Nonetheless, a number of these items involve complex operational and technical issues that will complicate deliberations. Read more...
by Laura Sear
Having agreed to pay a high price for 5G spectrum in 2018, Italian mobile operators now want to delay the final instalment. Read more...
by Richard Haas
There is pressure from the European Commission to assign the band even though the market has “no idea” what to do with it, the RTR's executive director told PolicyTracker. Read more...