by Patrick Gahan
India's department of telecommunications is inviting public comments on its Draft National Digital Communications Policy 2018 published on 1 May 2018. The draft document lays out a policy and principles framework that intends to help create a competitive telecom market that can help to strengthen India’s economy through the adoption of a variety… Read more...
by Patrick Gahan
On May 2, 2018 Hong Kong's Communication Authority (CA) opened a consultation seeking feedback on the authority's plans for the future assignment of spectrum in the 3.4 - 3.6 GHz band as well as on the planned requirements to prevent interference between satellite and mobile services. Currently the whole band… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The US plans to award various mmWave bands for 5G at the county or partial economic area level, while in the C-band it plans to share the spectrum, allowing exclusive use in a portion of the spectrum at the smallest geographical level. Read more...
by Patrick Gahan
On April 12, 2018 at a conference in Marrakech, Morocco, Mohamed Abbes, the public policy director at the GSMA for the MENA region said that Sudan along with Tunisia and Algeria were expected to release 700 MHz spectrum soon. No firm date for any spectrum release procedure has been given. Read more...
by Manuel R. Marti
The Spanish government has proposed to increase fees for 5G frequencies by a factor of 13 in its budget for the coming fiscal year. Read more...
by Toby Youell
A globally harmonized 2.4 GHz band enabled economies of scale for RLANs. Problems with incumbents meant this was not the case in all of the 5 GHz band, but what about spectrum above 5925 MHz? Read more...
by Spectrum Research Service Blog
In the last part of our series about IoT networks we consider whether they are being held back by patchy global harmonisation. The two key unlicensed bands used for IoT - 868 MHz and 915 MHz - are not globally adopted like 2.4 GHz, which spawned the growth of Wi-Fi.… Read more...
by Catherine Viola
Unlike the 2.4 GHz ISM band, the most attractive unlicensed spectrum for low-power IoT networks just below 1 GHz is not globally harmonised. Is better harmonisation needed and how much can be achieved? Read more...
by Mark Ballard
The US regulator's proposals to allow the commercial exploitation of millimetre wave radio frequencies above 95 GHz are flawed, according to one of its former policy chiefs. Space agency NASA says there is a need to protect frequencies that satellites and space missions depend on. Read more...