The European Commission is holding a consultation on how it may introduce proposed legislation that would exempt small cells from requiring planning permission. The EC frames this consultation as part of its efforts to encourage 5G deployment in the European Union, which it says will require network densification. Read more...

The Electronic Communications Committee (ECC), a committee under CEPT, would like views on their plans to harmonise frequency bands for narrowband PPDR (NB-PPDR) and wideband PPDR (WB-PPDR) services. The plan said that the 380-385 MHz/390-395 MHz frequency range is to be allocated to NB-PPDR providing emergency services using channel spacing of up… Read more...

The Electronic Communications Committee (ECC), a committee under the CEPT, would like views on their plans to harmonise technical conditions and frequency bands for broadband PPDR (BB-PPDR). Each member state can decide whether to use a portion of the 700 MHz band for BB-PPDR services and whether to use a… Read more...