by Toby Youell
The Belgian regulator, the IPBT/BIPT, has issued a consultation on technical and operational conditions for mobile services in the L-Band. The regulator has plans to include these frequencies as part of a multiband auction next year. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Swedish regulator, the PTS, has issued a consultation on its plans to award the 2.3 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands. The document sets out decisions that would provide for wide bandwidths for 5G services in these bands, and would protect competition. In all, the PTS intends to award national… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The French telecoms regulator, ARCEP, has issued a consultation on planned continued use of the 3.4 - 3.8 GHz band for wireless local loop services. The regulator plans to auction the frequencies for 5G mobile services this Autumn, but has allowed the band's usage for wireless local loop services during… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Belgian regulator, the BIPT, has issued a public consultation on its draft decision on coexistence within the 900 MHz band between GSM-R and public mobile broadband networks. GSM-R, used by the country's rail networks, uses the 876.1 - 879.9 MHz paired with 921.1 - 924.9 MHz. The adjacent 880.1… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Slovenian regulator, AKOS, has issued a consultation on its spectrum management strategy for the next few years. Its proposals include an intention to make a decision by June 2020 with respect to awarding the 700 MHz, 1400 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz, 3.4 – 3.8 GHz, and 26 GHz… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (IPBT/BIPT) has issued a consultation on its draft decision to deny Citymesh's request to add some municipalities to its 3.5 GHz band licence. According to the draft decision, the regulator denied the request as doing so would deny a competitor the potential… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The French telecoms regulator, ARCEP, has issued a consultation on rules for future synchronisation of time division duplex (TDD) mobile broadband networks at 3.4 - 3.8 GHz. Because TDD networks rely on the use of time to avoid interference between networks, ARCEP wants to establish clear rules for how it's… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Belgian regulator, the BIPT, has issued a consultation on its future policy for the 26 GHz band. The consultation aims at: estimating the existence of a market demand for the 26 GHz band in Belgium; defining the guidelines on the migration of radio-relay links existing in the 26 GHz… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on allowing Active Antenna Systems, an important component of 5G, in the 3.4 - 3.8 GHz band. This would be done by amending existing licences so that they comply with the conditions set out in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/235. This… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Irish regulator, ComReg, has invited comments on its draft decision to release the 400 MHz sub-band. ComReg has also extended the time to receive comments to its draft decision until April 23. Read more...