The money for will be available to local authorities through “simple and non-bureaucratic procedures”, according to the European Commission. Read more...

Google and Apple have both been getting more interested in spectrum. Are they doing anything new? Read more...

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1.5 GHz spectrum is set to be released for supplemental downlink (SDL) by some European countries in the coming years but interest is still patchy and shared use makes it a tricky proposition. Read more...

Belgian operators have not shown much interest in the band, but their counterparts in the Netherlands are urging the Dutch government to make it available as soon as possible. Read more...

(2016 entry) Sweden has always been in the vanguard of developments in the mobile sector and is likely to remain there. Mobile services are well developed and there is increasing demand for high capacity connections. As Sweden is a sparsely populated country, mobile broadband has, in many areas, become a… Read more...

India is gradually making more spectrum available, but LTE has not made much progress yet and mobile operators are resentful of the amounts they have had to spend on licences in recent years. Read more...

(2016 entry) The European leader in releasing 700 Mhz and L-band, Germany recently saw its number of operators reduce from four to three with the acquisition of E-Plus by Telefónica. Read more...

Japan assigns spectrum by beauty contests rather than auctions and has recently released 3.5 GHz. It is heavily invested in 5G and has been working on the technology since 2010. Read more...

The choice of bidding rules influences auction revenues, a finding that should be considered by auction designers, say Imperial College London Research Fellow Pantelis Koutroumpis and regulatory economist Martin Cave. NERA economic consultant Richard Marsden, however, said that while the findings will spur an interesting debate, the authors' case is… Read more...