The French telecoms regulator has issued its strategic review of spectrum for ultra high speed mobile systems for a two-month public consultation. The consultation includes France's latest plans to assign the 700 MHz band by the end of 2015. ARCEP is to submit a framework for assigning the band to the government… Read more...

Issues raised by a new law which allows local government bodies to establish or subsidise high speed telecoms access. Topics include market impact, effect on competition and technical and legal aspects. Aim: to publish guidelines for these projects. Read more...

The third public consultation on market analysis, which concerns the fixed-telephony retail and wholesale markets Read more...

A consultation to ascertain how to allocate new frequencies which been identified in the 3.4 to 3.8Ghz bands. Contributions to blr@art-telecom.fr. Read more...

Call for industry input on:i. Available and appropriate broadband technologies, as well as the availability of equipment ii. the broadband PAMR (public access mobile radio) market iii.coverage and quality of service concerns relating to allocating PAMR authorisations iv. equity of rights and obligations v. competition conditionsvi. means of allocating the… Read more...

An ivitiation for media companies, equipment manufactures, and consumers to give their views on the technical and economic issues raised by the introduction of digital radio. Read more...

The consultation examines the functioning of the national market for international roaming services on mobile networks and examines changes to come for the years2005-2008. Within this framework, ARCEP also conducts a market analysis. Read more...

The French government has launched a consultation on how it should prepare for "Digital France 2020". The consultation asks for input on how France can best promote mobile broadband, and how future digital terrestrial television (DTT) services will develop. In the mobile broadband section, the consultation paper asks what new… Read more...

Comments invited on proposed new methods for calculating the financing of universal service Read more...

ARCEP is proposing that the protocols SPIROU and SSUTR2 should be used to transmit location information to enable the emergency services to ascertain where the VoIP subscriber is calling from. Read more...