The Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) has now completed its draft opinion on the digital dividend and is seeking comments from stakeholders. The group's key objective has been supporting the realisation of a digital dividend on a technology and service neutral basis, taking into account the potential benefits of an… Read more...

The US regulator is proposing to auction 16 regional licences in the 700 MHz band which were offered in the main auction for the band, Auction 73, and remained unsold or were licences on which a winning bidder defaulted. Comment is sought on a range of auction issues including the… Read more...

This document outlines concrete steps towards a common approach to the use of the digital dividend in Europe. The most significant is a proposal for a draft EC decision on the technical harmonisation of the 790-862 MHz band. The Commission would also recommended that Member States refrain from any regulatory… Read more...

The UK regulator has launched a consultation on a proposal to permit the use of two 200 kHz channels in the lower part of the 606-614 MHz band (channel 38) for high power Programme Making and Special Events (PMSE) applications. High power PMSE refers to audio links operating above 50… Read more...

The Belgian regulator has published a consultation document with its proposals for the allocation and use of the 800 MHz band together with a study commissioned from an independent consultant. A number of recommendations have been made in the study including: the number of blocks of spectrum to be auctioned… Read more...

The Irish regulator has decided to include the 1800 MHz band in a single auction with the 800 MHz and 900 MHz band and explains its reasons in some detail in the consultation document. At present, three MNOs each have 2 x 14.4 MHz blocks with two licences expiring in… Read more...

Italy's telecoms regulator has released a consultation document for what it describes as its "big auction" of 300 MHz of spectrum. This includes both the digital dividend 800 MHz band and the 2.6 GHz band, which several other countries have grouped together for a 4G auction, as well as new… Read more...

The Polish regulator, the UKE, has issued a public consultation on the terms of its re-launched digital dividend auction of spectrum in the 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands. The regulator was due to hold an auction of the spectrum in the first quarter of this year, but this auction was cancelled in… Read more...

The UK regulator has published a consultation document outlining its proposals to to create temporary HDTV multiplexes using spectrum freed up for new uses by the analogue broadcast switch-off. Until now the band had been earmarked for wireless microphones and devices using white space technologies. The HDTV broadcasts would co-exist… Read more...

The irish regulator is seeking comment from stakeholders on which bands could best be used for PMSE when the bands now being used are no longer available. These are the 2.3 GHz band, which will be auctioned for BWA, and  which is currently the preferred band for wireless camera transmission,… Read more...