The Indian government wants its National Digital Communications Policy (NDCP) 2018 to signal a move away from policies that have resulted in extremely high reserve prices and unsold frequencies in recent years. Read more...

Over the past few months we have reported on the discussions about protecting earth observation services in 24 GHz against interference from 5G in 26 GHz. The latter is one of the most widely-supported 5G candidate bands under discussion at WRC-19 and has been identified as a 5G pioneer band… Read more...

The ability to use 26 GHz for 5G is limited by the need to protect satellite earth observation services in 24 GHz. But what are the engineering issues behind this? Independent consultant Roberto Ercole explains how they affect the commercial prospects for the band and could influence operators as they… Read more...

5G could enhance agricultural growth by delivering reliable and high bandwidth connections but there still are questions to answer over coverage and security. Read more...

World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) agenda items 7, 9.1 and 9.2 always concern recurring issues that regularly require amendments to the Radio Regulations. The increased use of these items is now attracting the attention of policymakers as they start to consider potential agenda items for WRC-23 and beyond as part of… Read more...

Bosnia's communication's regulator has published draft rules on the use of  mobile/fixed communications networks supplemental downlink (MFCN SDL) in the 1452-1492 MHz band. The draft rules include channel sizes and transmission regulations.         Read more...

The Czech Telecommunication Office (CTU) has called for comment on draft measures specifying the technical parameters and conditions for the use services operating in the 1900-2200 MHz band. The Draft documents outlines general frequency band information including details for mobile and satellite band details as well as band characteristics.    … Read more...

Update: On May 10, 2018  the FCC adopted the draft proposals, as outlined below, and published the notice of proposed rule making  and made it open for comment for 30 days until June 10, 2018. Original Entry: The FCC is seeking comment on draft proposals to modernise and rationalise spectrum in the… Read more...

CEPT is currently running a consolation on  draft report 283which examines the impact of introducing LTE technology for private mobile radio (PMR) public access mobile radio (PAMR) mobile fixed communication network (MFCN) (with channel bandwidth of 1.4 MHz, 3 MHz and 5 MHz) and  machine to machine/internet of things (M2M/IoT)  in… Read more...

CEPT is currently running a consultation on the deployment of point-to-point radio links in the frequency ranges 92-114.25 GHz (W-band) and 130-174.8 GHz (D-band) as laid out in draft report 282. The draft report examines new requirements for fixed links applications for covering the demands of forthcoming 5G transport networks and examines the… Read more...