by Chetan Chauhan-Sims
Less than 5% of Italy's land mass is made up of 'intensively built-up' areas and is inhabited by over 65% of the population. Additionally, 17% of the land mass, over 50,000 km2, is uninhabited, located mainly in the central and northern regions. Read more...
by Chetan Chauhan-Sims
Canada's population is concentrated near the US border. Less than 1% of the land mass is home to 24 million people, and over 60% is completely uninhabited. Read more...
by Chetan Chauhan-Sims
1% of China's land mass is made up of 'intensively built-up' areas and is home to 36% of the population, almost 500 million people. A larger 11% of the land mass is made up of 'built-up' areas and is inhabited by a further 35% of the population. 20% of the… Read more...
by Martin Sims
Dear colleague, It's Christmas here in the UK, when many of us will be relaxing, eating too much and watching lots of TV. It's also a time for looking back over the past year and looking forward to the new one. PolicyTracker only exists because of our subscribers,… Read more...
by Richard Handford
Hong Kong raised a total of HK$6 billion ($750 million) from an auction that reassigned 900 MHz and 1800 MHz frequencies to incumbents, but not everyone was impressed with the outcome. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a branch of the US Department of Commerce, has issued a Request for Comments on the development of a comprehensive, long-term national spectrum strategy. This consultation forms part of a broader effort within the US Government to develop a spectrum strategy. A PolicyTracker article about these… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The RTR is consulting on its plans to hold an auction of the 700 MHz, L-Band, and 2.1 GHz bands in Autumn 2019. Read more...
by Manuel R. Marti
Verizon followed through on its promise and launched a 5G home broadband service earlier this year. Although it can claim to be the first one to turn on a 5G commercial network, the mobile operator isn't using 3GPP official standards and its coverage is rather limited. Read more...
by Manuel R. Marti
As another year draws to a close, we thought we'd look back at some of 2018's most significant spectrum news. Future historians of 5G are likely to think of 2018 as a defining year. South Korea, Italy and the US became the first countries to auction mmWave spectrum. Others such as Spain, Australia,… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has unanimously voted in favour of auctioning the 37.6–40 GHz and 47.2–48.2 GHz bands together by the end of 2019. Read more...