by Toby Youell
Update: January 31, 2019. The FCC has extended the filing deadlines for this item, as the previous deadline fell during the partial U.S government shut-down. According to guidance released by the FCC, filing that was due between January 8 and February 7, which included this item, will now be due on… Read more...
by Manuel R. Marti
The head of DG Connect, which is part of the European Commission, has branded Europe’s current assignment of 5G spectrum “unacceptable” and urged countries to make more frequencies available. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The Indian operator is frequently name-checked as a model for successfully breaking into a mobile market with its straight-to-4G, data-only strategy. But Reliance Jio Infocomm looks like a one-off: finding another visionary, billionaire backer like Mukesh Ambani, willing to invest a significant chunk of his capital in spectrum and infrastructure… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Moldovan regulator, the ANRCETI, has launched a public consultation on a draft administrative board decision on the methodology for measuring and assessing the quality parameters for publicly available mobile services in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2.1 GHz, and 2.6 GHz bands. This methodology is intended to… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Oman regulator is consulting on its policy for Machine-to-Machine communications and the Internet of Things. The consultation document includes questions on which spectrum is attractive for these services, and how it should be made available. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The European Commission is holding a consultation on how it may introduce proposed legislation that would exempt small cells from requiring planning permission. The EC frames this consultation as part of its efforts to encourage 5G deployment in the European Union, which it says will require network densification. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Greek regulator, the EETT, has issued a public consultation on the potential issuance of mobile licences for the 1500 MHz band. Read more...
by Manuel R. Marti
Last week we reported that Switzerland was going to switch off free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT). But what is the country's regulator going to do with all that UHF spectrum? Clearing a frequency band earlier than expected is probably every regulator's dream. So what are Ofcom's intentions? An auction? A secondary… Read more...
by Toby Youell
In the world’s second auction for the mmWave 5G frequencies, the 28 GHz band achieved more than double the value seen in Korea last year. Read more...
by Manuel R. Marti
A senior figure at Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo has told a Brussels conference that many of the carrier's partners "have a misunderstanding of 5G”. Read more...