by Toby Youell
How many licensees are there in the 800 MHz band in Hungary? What is the most expensive $/MHz/POP price for the 700 MHz band in Asia-Pacific? Which EU member states have assigned the 26 GHz band? Informed decisions make better decisions, but finding relevant information in spectrum management can be… Read more...
by Toby Youell
An increasing number of regulators around the world are allowing unlicensed use of the 6 GHz band. Change in this policy area has been so rapid that we have now updated our 6 GHz benchmarking service, which was first published in June. As we summarise in the Research Note 6 GHz… Read more...
by Toby Youell
In 1961 the USSR launched the 'space race' by successfully sending Yuri Gagarin to space, and back. Sixty years on, we are again in another 'space race'. But aside from competition to put actors into space the current race is not between Roscosmos and NASA, but is between a plethora… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Moore's law states that computing power effectively doubles every two years. In the telecoms industry, a similar kind of law seems to apply, in that a new generation of mobile technology arrives every 10 years. Now that 5G is commercially available in some places, private and public sector actors are… Read more...
by Toby Youell
One of the perennial problems in spectrum management is that new demands come faster than ways to clear the airwaves. New technologies are always in development, but even with the most competent spectrum managers, it usually take years or even decades to clear frequencies for new uses. Seeing as 6G… Read more...
by Toby Youell
New iteration of PolicyTracker Spectrum Database tracks 11 auctions across six bands. The last three months included two potentially expensive spectrum auctions. Operators in one of these countries, Pakistan, largely shunned the award; but Canadian operators ended up paying record prices. These auction results are reported in the 2021 Q3… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Spectrum management is complicated. Engineers, lawyers, policy makers and investors all think about spectrum in different ways. Further, many different types of organizations are relevant for spectrum management, and they often have viewpoints that conflict with each other. These views also seem to vary by region. Even allocations for the… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Being a confusing subject, spectrum managers often resort to talking about frequencies as if it is land. This is intuitive because many spectrum policy concepts apply to real estate too. A usage right can be thought of as owning land, while technical limits on usage resemble planning permission rules. It… Read more...
by Manuel R. Marti
Looking at a list of utilities, most people today would likely identify a missing piece, broadband. In this day and age, where much of our professional and personal lives revolves around the Internet, shouldn’t it be considered a utility? Over 75 per cent of US consumers thinks so, according to… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The mobile and satellite industries, while complementary in many ways, have often been pitted against each other in the world of spectrum management. But with the emergence of 5G in the last few years there have been hopes, explored in a PolicyTracker Spectrum Research Service Dossier, that this relationship may… Read more...