Urban areas delivered most of the revenues in the country’s regional auction of 850/900 MHz, although competition for frequencies was more intense outside the cities. Read more...

Portugal’s 5G award raised a relatively moderate amount—just over €566 million—but the 1,727 rounds and 201 days of bidding made it easily the longest spectrum auction ever held.  Read more...

French regulator ARCEP has launched two consultations on planned 5G spectrum auctions in the country’s overseas territories. Read more...

Australian communications minister Paul Fletcher is not wholly acting on the advice of the country’s competition watchdog on setting a spectrum cap for a forthcoming auction. Read more...

The country’s minister of communications and multimedia has awarded 2 x 5 MHz in the 900 MHz band directly to local company Altel without an open tender—a year after making an identical decision, which was later revoked. Read more...

Regulators in Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia have announced plans to sell 5G spectrum this year Read more...

The Moldovan administration will use a sealed bid format rather than their usual combinatorial clock auction approach. Read more...

The Australian government wants to reserve some frequencies for incumbent mobile operators in an auction of the 850 MHz and 900 MHz bands. Read more...

A more systematic survey of nearby stars and better analysis of the data acquired mean we can expect more radio signal "events" akin to the recent one from Proxima Centauri, says Michael Garrett, director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. Read more...

Slovakian regulator the RÚ says four telecoms firms companies have acquired spectrum in the 700, 900 and 1800 MHz bands for a total of €100.2 million. Read more...