The French telecoms regulator, ARCEP, has issued a consultation on its spectrum policy for short range devices. Read more...

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Although spectrum policy involves many stakeholders, ultimately it is mobile operators who are serving the mass markets and have to ensure their 5G business model works. Operators in Europe have recently been found to have been willing to pay $0.42/MHz/POP in for C-Band spectrum, and current bidding for 28 GHz… Read more...

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US and Mexican operator AT&T is investing heavily in 5G and plans to be the first US provider to offer services in the technology. It launched an LTE-M low-power wide-area network in 2017, and in 2019 intends to roll out Voice over LTE for LTE-M. Its current spectrum priorities include… Read more...

The Vodafone Group continues to build its 4G spectrum portfolio, while acquiring additional spectrum for 5G services, which it expects to launch in 2020.  Read more...

Telefonica Group wants more globally harmonised spectrum for 5G. It supports use of bands below 6 GHz, particularly the C-band (3.4-4.2 GHz) and its priorities for WRC-19 are 26 GHz and  40 GHz. It is critical of spectrum assignment regimes in some of the countries in which it operates and… Read more...

French telecoms carrier Orange is "actively preparing for the arrival of 5G" and remains focused on the effective, coordinated rollout of 700 MHz and 3.6 GHz spectrum. It is also interested in the 26/32 GHz bands. Read more...

The strategy of the Deutsche Telekom Group strategy is to become Europe's leading telecoms provider. While the FCC considers an agreed merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, Deutsche Telekom's US subsidiary is pushing ahead with the deployment of 5G in 600 MHz and 28 GHz. In Europe Deutsche Telekom is also… Read more...

Machine learning is credited with revolutionizing other sectors, such as voice recognition software, and many hope it can have a similar impact on spectrum management.  Read more...