Steady progress is being made in releasing 700 MHz for mobile with 30 auctions anticipated over the next three years. Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas are the furthest advanced but few definite plans have been made in Africa or central Asian countries. Read more...

ITU-R Task Group 5/1 (TG5/1), which is developing sharing parameters for Agenda Item 1.13 of WRC-19 – the 5G agenda item – has set forward a representative base station power level of 48 dBm as the power level that should be used in sharing studies on the expected deployment of new mobile… Read more...

Steady progress is being made in releasing 700 MHz for mobile with 30 auctions anticipated over the next three years. Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas are the furthest advanced but few definite plans have been made in Africa or central Asian countries. Our latest Research Note explains the background with the help… Read more...

Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) Read more...

A 21 December ruling by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court acquitted all defendants of allegations that the Indian telecoms ministry undersold 2G spectrum and took bribes in 2008. The allegations led to the cancellation of 122 licences by India's Supreme Court in 2012. The CBI said it… Read more...

Poland's UKE has opened a public consultation on auctioning spectrum in the 450 MHz band. The UKE intends to sell the frequencies between  452.5-457.5 MHz and 462.5-467.5 MHz before June 1 2018.  The licence on offer will cover the whole country and be valid until May 31, 2033.  However,  the… Read more...

Regulators seeking to balance flexibility in telecoms licensing with some degree of certainty for investors about spectrum tenure are considering the issue of licence duration, Ovum analysts say. All things being equal, a longer licence does offer more certainty but it's by no means the only factor in minimising investment… Read more...

Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) Read more...

Three still has a case in the UK’s Court of Appeal but Ofcom wants to get the ball rolling anyway. Read more...

US industrial conglomerate General Electric has urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to stick to its plan of authorising the use of the 3550–3700 MHz band by census tract, rather than partial economic areas (PEAs) as proposed by mobile operators. Read more...