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...

Consultation to consider five alternative combinations of sites, mode and power for Digital Terrestrial TV coverage. Will also address potential use of the 8k variant of the DTT standard; and how current coverage deficiencies should be managed at switchover.Digital Replacement licences to be amended by end of May. Read more...

Ofcom's strategy and priorities for the promotion of media literacy Read more...

The Canadian regulator, Industry Canada, has issued a consultation on its proposals to enable the use of the 600 MHz band to mobile broadband. Under IC's proposals, Canada would repack the spectrum it uses for the over the air broadcasting simultaneously with the USA. IC says it will make its decision before… Read more...

The Australian telecoms and broadcast regulator has issued a consultation document addressing the issue of non-compliance with the country's current Earth receive station licensing requirements. The document identifies areas of non-compliance and addresses potential solutions before providing an analysis of the ACMA's preferred approach against its "Principles of Spectrum Management".… Read more...

This consultation includes proposals on: The licence fee Ofcom will charge the band managerMinimising disruption to PMSE users;Ensuring the band manager makes spectrum available on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basisRequests for non-PMSE use of the spectrumTechnical conditions for using the spectrum   Read more...

The ACMA is looking for input from stakeholders on how the 2.5 GHz band should be planned and allocated to provide highest-value use. It is currently used mainly for free-to-air electronic news gathering (ENG) services, and the review also hopes to identify suitable long-term spectrum arrangements to support these services… Read more...

Last year's decision to align the UK with the emerging European position on clearing channels 61 to 69, the 800 MHz band, meant adding channels 61, 62 and 69 to the UK regulator's existing digital switchover plans. As a result, regions where the switchover has already occurred will need to… Read more...

The UK regulator has launched new proposals and a consultation document for the provision of extra spectrum for wireless cameras at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Ofcom's spectrum plans for the Games, which was published in 2009, appears to have underestimated demand. As a result it is now proposed to… Read more...

The UK regulator has issued a consultation paper in which it seeks comment from all telecoms and broadcast stakeholders on how to proceed with gathering information for a new three-yearly mandatory report to the government on the UK's communications infrastructure. The first report is due to be submitted in August… Read more...