by Richard Handford
The Indian government raised a total of nearly Rs150,000 crore ($19 billion) in its most lucrative ever spectrum contest. Read more...
by Laura Sear
The 2022 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) says European Union member states have assigned only 56 per cent of the 5G spectrum available to them. In addition, 60 per cent of 5G base stations currently use 4G or 3G spectrum rather than the 5G pioneer bands. Read more...
by Richard Haas
Academic Elliot Eichen has proposed a new way of using the mmWave bands which he believes could be more efficient than current ITU protections for earth exploration satellites operating in nearby bands. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The Indian government has approved an auction of 72 GHz of 5G spectrum across ten bands with a target date of 26 July for the contest to start. Read more...
by Jaroslaw Adamowski
Montenegro is likely to sell 5G spectrum before Serbia, its former partner in federation, which has struggled to launch its own auction. Read more...
by Laura Sear
The ongoing consultation on the 26 GHz and 40 GHz bands suggests that future plans for mmWave spectrum in the UK lean toward local licences. Read more...
by Jaroslaw Adamowski
Croatia is preparing to sell spectrum in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands. Read more...
by Richard Haas
Speaking at an event organised by UK regulator Ofcom, representatives from BT in the UK and Verizon in the US agreed that the higher spectrum bands are important but device support and assignments are still lacking. Read more...
by Richard Haas
There is pressure from the European Commission to assign the band even though the market has “no idea” what to do with it, the RTR's executive director told PolicyTracker. Read more...
by Jaroslaw Adamowski
Estonia has had to revise its spectrum auction plans as it has not reached an agreement with Russia yet over using C-band spectrum for 5G. Read more...