The Irish government has issued a comprehensive consultation on its spectrum policy priorities.  The consultation will revisit the Spectrum Policy Statement, which was published in September 2010, and shall take in to account the National Broadband Plan, which was published in 2012. The document invites all stakeholders, including consumers, to answer 17 questions… Read more...

A review of national numbering in the light of recent changes with respect to VoiP services and premium rate services. Read more...

Three options presented for review of the band:(i)Divide frequencies in the band between point to multipoint systems and point-to-point sysetms.(ii)Divide frequencies in the band between individual frequency assignments and block frequency assigments on a national or regional basis. (iii)Open the whole block for national or regional spectrum block assignment earmarking… Read more...

Update: October 16 The consultation period has been extended until 14 November. ComReg announced that it has extended the deadline in response to a request received from two interested parties. October 1 The Irish regulator, ComReg, has issued a consultation concerning a new round of spectrum releases for mobile broadband. ComReg says… Read more...

Inviting views on draft strategy statement which considers the rapidly changing electronic communications market. Objectives include:i. Promoting competitionii. Developing the internal marketiii. Effectively managing the spectrum ..etc. Read more...

The Irish regulator is consulting interested parties about changing current frequency requirements and spectrum release proposals in order to create a new licensing framework, including dedicated spectrum sub-bands, for certain types of machine-to-machine communications. These are telemetry and telecontrol systems, which allow automated measurements to be made and data collected… Read more...

Inviting responses to proposals to define two retail call markets: domestic and international; and to designate eircom as having SMP in both markets. Comments are also invited on the proposed remedies, which include carrrier access, carrier selection and carrier pre-selection. Read more...

A consultation to address the problem of modem-hijacking which leads to dial-up internet users paying international rates for internet use. Read more...

Update: 23 July: ComReg has extended the consultation period by two weeks until Friday 8 August. The regulator says that this decision follows a request received from an interested party. 27 June: The Irish regulator, ComReg, has issued a consultation concerning the liberalisation of the paired 2 GHz band. The proposal implements… Read more...

The Irish regulator has issued a consultation concerning its future management strategy for the 490 - 790 MHz band (UHF band). The consultation paper does not set out the regulator's views on the spectrum. It outlines current discussions about the UHF band and discusses its current and potential uses. It also invites… Read more...