by Dugie Standeford
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) had expected to start an auction procedure in March, but is now bogged down in a lawsuit with the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services amid plans for a wireless wholesale open access network (WOAN). One consultant doubts ICASA's process will ever… Read more...
by Patrick Gahan
Italy's regulator AGCOM has launched a consultation on the extension of usage rights in the 3.5 GHz band in response to request made by the existing licence holders; Tiscali, Go Internet, Linkem and Telecom Italia. The above operators were awarded 15 year licences in 2008 which are due to expire in… Read more...
by Richard Handford
Rod Sims, chairman of Australian competition regulator the ACCC, said part of the value for mobile operators in bidding in auctions is to block rivals from acquiring spectrum. He is not the first regulator to remark on how such contests can influence operator behaviour; the US Department of Justice made… Read more...
by Patrick Gahan
In March 2017 the FCC assigned licences in the 600 MHz band by means of an incentive auction where broadcasters offered their spectrum through a reverse auction and this was made available to operators through a forward auction. Read more...
by Chetan Chauhan-Sims
These graphs show the licences won by the five biggest winners in the 2017 US incentive auction. Read more...
by Spectrum Research Service Blog
Beginning with the United States' 600 MHz incentive auction this week, we will be analysing the results and consequences of this years significant spectrum auctions. In the coming weeks we will be examining Ireland's 3.5 GHz auction as well as taking a more general look at auctions in the 700 MHz band.… Read more...
by Kane Mumford
"Tuning range" solutions, in which adjacent or nearly adjacent bands can be considered harmonised if equipment can be reconfigured to operate over multiple bands, are capable of generating the same benefits as harmonised spectrum allocations, says the mobile industry body. Read more...
by Kane Mumford
Digital UK has launched what it says is an “unashamedly ambitious” plan for the UHF band in the UK and Europe. Read more...