Our top story this month is the surprising results in the Dutch mobile auction. With this in mind we look ahead to the likely values in the forthcoming UK auction, as well as reporting on auctions in Poland, Nicaragua and Colombia. We also look at government initiatives to speed up… Read more...

The fate of Australia’s planned 700 MHz digital dividend spectrum auction hangs in the balance as operators wait to see if the government will back down on the artificially high reserve price imposed by the telecoms minister. Read more...

Mexican regulator Cofetel has announced that it will carry out a public consultation with regard to self-organising networks (SONs) in February 2013 as part of a general shake-up of the regulation of the industry in the country. Read more...

Although seven companies paid the $3000 entry fee to acquire tender documents for Nicaragua’s 1800 MHz auction, the spectrum eventually attracted just one firm bidder: the Chinese firm Xinwei. Read more...

Brazil's Foreign Trade Chamber (CAMEX) has reduced the level of import tax applied to equipment used for 4G mobile services. Read more...

Plans by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) to clear and auction around 200 MHz of spectrum may hint at a role for the regulator Ofcom in the process. That's according to Charles Gay of Espirito, a company specialising in commercialisation through sharing of public sector spectrum. Ofcom, however, sees… Read more...

The approval of a new antenna law by an influential Senate committee should help to boost the speed of LTE rollout in Brazil. Read more...

Middle Eastern and North African countries could see economic benefits of up to $26 billion if they use the 1.4 GHz band for a supplemental downlink for mobile broadband, according to a new study from Plum Consulting. Read more...

There have been a myriad of attempts to define spectrum usage and spectrum rights. For fun(!) I have been trying to bring these all together into a single framework for defining interference and, by dint, sharing. The result appears to point to the radio spectrum being a six-dimensional problem space... Read more...

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