The UK regulator has issued a consultation on its proposal to indefinitely extend a licence for two 20 MHz blocks in the 3.4 GHz band that is held by UK Broadband. The licence expires in 2018.  Ofcom's proposal follows a request from UK Broadband. Ofcom said it wants to do this… Read more...

This consultation sets out the technical conditions under which Ofcom proposes to allow cognitive devices to use interleaved digital dividend spectrum on a licence-exempt basis. The document says three mechanisms can be used to detect unused spectrum: sensing, geolocation and beacons. For sensing Ofcom proposes parameters at which the sensing… Read more...

Ofcom has issued a Call For Inputs (CFI) concerning the future of UHF bands 1 and 2 (420 - 470 MHz).  The CFI is part of an ongoing strategic review in to the band, whose future is perceived as being uncertain, and the CFI is part of an effort by Ofcom to… Read more...

This document sets out Ofcom's revised proposals for the application of Administered Incentive Pricing (“AIP”) to certain maritime uses of the radio spectrum. The regulator wants to apply revised fees to the use of some, but not all, maritime VHF channels. However, Ofcom is no longer proposing to apply AIP… Read more...

The objective of the consultation is to help prepare a new EU strategy for the information society, as the current i2010 strategy expires this year. The aims of this new digital agenda include: accelerating economic recovery;maintaining leadership in high-tech sectors;spending research budgets more effectively;offseting GDP stagnation caused by a shrinking… Read more...

Ofcom says current arrangements for trading may be "imposing unnecessary regulatory burdens" and proposes to simplify them by reducing the number of processes required to execute a trade from six to four. In many cases the parties would only need to notify Ofcom rather than getting the regulators consent in… Read more...

This consultation puts forward the proposals on which the UK government can make a direction to the regulator, Ofcom, on how it should release spectrum needed for the next generation of mobile and wireless broadband services. These proposals are based on the work of the Independent Spectrum Broker (ISB) and… Read more...

This report considers how the use of one type of UWB technology, Level Probing Radar (LPR), might affect various  services operating in or near  proposed LPR  bands. The LPR candidate bands are: 6.0-8.5 GHz, 24.05-26.5 GHz,57-64 GHz, and 75-85 GHz. LPR devices are used in many industries concerned with process… Read more...

This document sets out the technical conditions for granting Recognised Spectrum Access (RSA) in the 3400 to 3600 MHz band. The Ministry of Defence currently holds rights to this band but has  said it wants to release some of it to the commercial sector. This cannot be done under the… Read more...

The UK regulator has launched a consultation on the future use of the 700 MHz band. In its UHF strategy statement, published in November 2012, Ofcom explained the steps it intends to take to increase mobile broadband capacity by drawing on the 700 MHz frequency band, which is currently used… Read more...