The ECC's Working Group Spectrum Engineering has issued ECC Report 244 to a public consultation. The report contains compatibility studies related to the use of WAS/RLANs (specifically 802.11ac Wi-Fi) in the 5725 - 5925 MHz band, which is currently assigned throughout Europe for a range of other services. These include:… Read more...

Ofcom has issued a consultation on how it should promote investment and innovation in the Internet of Things.  The document identifies radio spectrum as an enabler of IoT that Ofcom can manage. Ofcom wants input from industry "on the scale and nature of demand" for spectrum, including licensing arrangements and the choice of… Read more...

The ECO is inviting comments on an Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) report that looks at the use of the lower frequency broadcast bands – below 80MHz – for digital broadcasting to national, local and community audiences. Included are the LF, MF, 26MHz (HF) bands and VHF Band I. The report… Read more...

ECO is inviting comments on an Electronics Communications Committee (ECC) report developed in response to ETSI System Reference Document TR 102 655. This asked the ECC to identify around 20 MHz of frequency band within 2360-3400 MHz for the advanced Low Power - Active Medical Implant (LP-AMI) telemetry applications. These… Read more...

The UK regulator has launched a consultation on the implications for amateurs of the Ministry of Defence's decision to release 40 MHz of spectrum between 2350 and 2390 MHz (the 2.3 GHz release band) and a further 150 MHz from 3410 to 3600 MHz (the 3.4 GHz release band) for… Read more...

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...