Brazilian regulator ANATEL has issued a consultation on its proposal to assign the 3400 - 3600 MHz band in 10 MHz blocks for TDD mobile broadband services, including 5G. Read more...

The CEPT is consulting on a draft toolkit that would guide administrations when designing coordination zones around satellite earth stations in a portion of the 26 GHz band. The draft ECC Recommendation (19)01 explains that each earth station operating under the Space Research and Earth Exploration-Satellite services at 25.5 -… Read more...

The CEPT has issued draft ECC Report 299 to a public consultation. The draft Report provides potential measures that Administrations may consider to address potential interference to mobile earth stations operating adjacent to L-Band mobile systems at sea ports and airports. Read more...

CEPT is seeking feedback on the ECC's draft revision report 271 detailing compatibility and sharing studies related to satellite systems operating in the 10.7-12.75 GHz  and 14-14.5 GHz bands. The report concerns itself with non-geostationary satellites that use the 10.7-12.75 GHz  band for space-to-earth transmission  and the 14-14.5 GHz band for earth-to-space transmissions Read more...

Brazil's regulator ANTEl is holding a public consultation on changes to the current pricing model for satellite operators. In particular ANTEL is looking to change the capacity benchmark used in this model as the regulator deems this to be inappropriate in the case of new high capacity satellites, such as those… Read more...

Australia's ACMA is seeking feedback on proposed changes to the Communications with Space-based Objects licence also known as a CSO licence. One of the proposed amendments is to include the frequency range 399.9 to 400.05 MHz in this licence. Other changes include amending company names and adding a new company.… Read more...

CEPT is seeking feedback on the draft revision of ECC Decision (13)01 which examines the use of satellite earth stations operating on mobile platforms in the 17.3-20.2 GHz and 27.5-30.0 GHz bands. The report goes on to look at the harmonised use, free circulation and exemption from individual licensing of this type of… Read more...

The European regulators organisation, CEPT, is conducting a series of consultations on technical conditions for the harmonised use of 5G bands. These are listed below and relate to separate reports: Harmonised technical conditions for Mobile/Fixed Communications Networks (MFCN) in the band 24.25-27.5 GHz (26 GHz): a proposed ECC decision Review… Read more...

Nigeria's Communication Commission is to hold a Public Inquiry on draft guidelines for the use of commercial satellite communications designed to ensure a well-developed and organised satellite communications market in Nigeria. The draft guidelines cover a range of topics including,  licensing guidelines for base stations,  spectrum management and preventing interference in… Read more...

CEPT has called for feedback on a draft report (ECC Report 270) into sharing studies between Telecoil Replacement Systems (TRS) and Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) in the frequency range 1656.5-1660.5 MHz.   The Studies considered interference between the two systems from Telecoil Replacement Systems (TRS) and mobile earth stations.  There was… Read more...