by Toby Youell
July 2, 2020: This consultation is now open here for public comment. June 26, 2020 Mexico's regulator, the IFT, will issue a public consultation on its preliminary draft guidelines for the registration of fixed radio links in the integrated administration system for radio spectrum. The consultation will be open for… Read more...
by Toby Youell
July 2, 2020: This proposed rule will be published in the Federal Register here on July 6. Comments can be made on the document until August 5, while replies to those comments must be made by September 4. June 9, 2020 The FCC has agreed to publish a consultation about… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Brazil's regulator, Anatel, is consulting on its planned regulatory agenda for 2021-22. This includes its plan to hold a spectrum auction for 5G services. The consultation will be open for public comment for 30 days. Read more...
by PolicyTracker
This week PolicyTracker publishes a new Dossier on spectrum refarming, based on research into the plans of more than 110 mobile operators . The results are available in our 2G and 3G network closures tracker, which allows you to to search search and filter the data. The Dossier includes analysis… Read more...
by Richard Handford
ACMA does "not intend to prioritise the development of a formal, ongoing dynamic spectrum access regime at this time” due to a lack of interest from spectrum holders, such as mobile network operators, the defence sector and satellite operators. Read more...
by Manuel R. Marti
The European Commission has once again raised concerns over significant delays in the assignment of 5G spectrum. Read more...
by Catherine Viola
What are the global trends in refarming legacy bands to use for 4G or 5G? Some operators have already switched over, but for others their strategy has to accommodate the use of 2G for M2M services. Read more...
by William Webb
Spectrum management can be an adversarial world. At any particular point in time, there are typically a number of spectrum bands “in play”. At the moment, we have the 3.4—4.2 GHz band, 6 GHz band and various mmWave bands. Read more...
by Toby Youell
Spectrum has been described as "the oxygen for the internet", but historically frequencies that are usable for mobile broadband has been only available on a nationwide basis. Realistically, only mobile operators have been able to obtain this spectrum. But as other industries try to take advantage of internet capabilities, particularly… Read more...