The UK's public spending watchdog says that some mobile operators paid less than market value in the country's auction of spectrum in the 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands. Read more...

UK regulator Ofcom has published the results of the assignment stage of the country’s 800 MHz/2.6 GHz auction and issued the five winning bidders with licences valid from 1 March. Read more...

European policymakers urgently need to develop a more coherent approach to the question of licence renewal, says Vodafone’s public policy director Richard Feasey. Read more...

Albania’s largest mobile service provider, Greek operator Cosmote’s subsidiary Albanian Mobile Communications (AMC), has been awarded the country’s second 3G licence nearly a year after Vodafone was awarded the first. Read more...

Albania’s largest mobile service provider, Greek operator Cosmote’s subsidiary Albanian Mobile Communications (AMC), has been awarded the country’s second 3G licence nearly a year after Vodafone was awarded the first. Read more...

The first large-scale commercial deployment of LTE is underway in Germany, where Vodafone is rolling out the service to rural areas using 800 MHz spectrum. The company will then turn its attention to towns and cities, where it will deploy LTE at 2.6 GHz. Read more...

Legislation enabling spectrum to be traded in Ireland could be in place by 2010, according to the country’s wireless community. Read more...

With growing support for the European Commission’s 'clusters' approach and Vodafone saying broadcasters should get HD spectrum, a meeting of minds on the principles of reusing the analogue TV bands appears closer. Read more...

Giving TV viewers a financial incentive to upgrade to more spectrally efficient set top boxes is gaining influential backers and looking increasingly attractive as a way of getting more services into UHF. Read more...

Ofcom seeks to implement European decision on 2G re-farming by offering three blocks of 900MHz spectrum for auction in 2010 Read more...