This week our Research Service focuses on a frequency range where mobile usage is particularly fragmented: 1700-2200 MHz. Read more...

In addition to as-yet-unresolved technical issues, efforts to deploy the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) in the US face a split between stakeholders who want to retain current licensing rules and those who say doing so risks undermining investment in 5G. Read more...

PolicyTracker interviewed Thomas W. Hazlett, former chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and author of 'The Political Spectrum', on the public good, "revolving door" regulators and Clint Eastwood.  Read more...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is seeking feedback on the possibility of moving commercial broadcasters to digital radio. The state-owned broadcaster is already shifting to DAB but some observers question why commercial stations should do the same.  Read more...

Although this is regarded as the first truly global mobile band, deployment is a long-term project. It is also being promoted as a 5G band, principally in Europe. Read more...

A few stakeholders want to develop 5G services in this range but the current interest is mainly experimental. Several stakeholders think the technology is fundamentally unsuited to frequencies this high. Read more...

Three UK will seek a judicial review in the UK High Court of the competition rules Ofcom set for the upcoming spectrum auction. A ruling is not expected until early 2018, but the operator said the process would not affect deployment of commercial 5G services. Read more...

Vodafone took Milan, while Telecom Italia and Wind won the rights to hold trials in Prato and l’Aquila and Bari and Matera respectively. Read more...

Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Read more...

ZTE is trialling pre-commercial 5G technologies both below 6 GHz and in the millimetre waves Read more...