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The ECC has issued an amendment to its Decision (06) 07 for consultation. The decision concerns the use of mobile phones in aeroplanes. It initially allowed and defined the use of GSM equipment in the 1800 MHz band, but the amendment extends this to other types of mobile devices in… Read more...
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The UK regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on its intention to stagger its long-awaited auction of the 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz bands in order to mitigate against the potential for competition to be impaired following both the auction and a round of consolidations. The proposals concern an auction of 190… Read more...
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UK regulator Ofcom has issued a consultation on the future use of 190 MHz of former Ministry of Defence spectrum in the 2.3 GHz and 3.4 GHz bands. Ofcom's initial view is that it will use the spectrum for unpaired mobile broadband in order to harmonise with other European countries.… Read more...
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The European Commission has issued a consultation to find out more about the views of Europeans going in to a review of the telecoms framework in the European Union. A press release about the consultation says that the Commission is asking about "the future of network access regulation, spectrum management, communication… Read more...
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The UK telecommunications regulator has issued a consultation on how spectrum in the 70/80 GHz bands should be managed in future. Since 2007, the spectrum - suitable for high capacity fixed links - has been assigned through a self-coordinating licensing approach. Ofcom is proposing to directly assign the 2 x… Read more...
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The inter-governmental group that advises the European Commission on spectrum, the RSPG, has published a consultation about its vision for the next Radio Spectrum Policy Programme, which is the spectrum agenda set for the European Union. In reviewing the current RSPP, which was established in 2012, the RSPG believes that… Read more...
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Ofcom has issued a consultation on its intention to make new spectrum available for audio Programme Making and Special Events (PMSE) applications, such as wireless microphones. Currently, these applications heavily rely on TV White Spaces, but the availability of these frequencies is set to diminish as the 700 MHz band… Read more...
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Ofcom has launched a consultation on its proposal to authorise the use of higher duty cycle Network Relay Points (NRPs) in the 870 - 873 MHz band. Ofcom wishes to be able to issue network licences for higher duty cycle NRPs (between 2.5 percent and 10 percent) to share the recently created licence-exempt… Read more...
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The UK regulator proposes to exempt a new batch of equipment from the need to hold a Wireless Telegraphy Licence. This includes personal locator beacons (PLBs) for use on land, wireless access terminals in the 3.4 - 3.8 GHz band, safety-related intelligent transport systems (ITS) infrastructure, 2 GHz mobile satellite… Read more...
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The ECC's Working Group Spectrum Engineering has issued Report 245 to a public consultation. That report provides proposed mitigation techniques against potential interference between future audio PMSE applications in the 1350 - 1400 MHz band, and incumbent radiolocation and fixed services. Read more...