by Toby Youell
The Australian government has formally approved recommendations made in the Spectrum Review Report. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Mobile operators Turkcell, Vodafone and Avea were the winners in the 26 August contest, with proceeds far exceeding the government's reserve price of 2.33 billion euros. The winning bids are subject to an approval process. Read more...
by Toby Youell
Company reported to have made £91M profit from the deal, which Ofcom is reviewing before deciding whether to make a competition investigation. Read more...
by PolicyTracker
Qualcomm has confirmed it will sell its 40 MHz of spectrum in the L-band in the UK to two mobile operators. Meanwhile, support for an IMT identification in the band at WRC-15 will be near global if its gets backing from Arab regulators meeting in Rabat. Read more...
by Toby Youell
Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei announce near-simultaneous deployments of three-carrier aggregation using combinations of the 1800 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The PPDR community is calling for dedicated and harmonised broadband spectrum, but it is very nervous about pulling the plug on narrowband TETRA networks. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Dish now owes the regulator billions of dollars even though the corporate structure they set up to take advantage of the small business discount followed previous FCC precedent. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Prime spectrum in the 800 MHz and 900 MHz bands was allocated to private mobile radio (PMR) and public access mobile radio (PAMR) nearly 20 years ago but never used for emergency communications. TETRA says there simply wasn't a business case for it, but one safety consultant is sceptical. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The future of broadcasting was explored at a recent ITU Symposium on the Geneva-06 Agreement, which is the framework within which administrations in ITU Region 1 (Africa, the Middle East and Europe) are making the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting. Read more...