by Toby Youell
The Hungarian regulator, the NMHH, is consulting on its plans to auction the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands this October. The current licences in the band expire in April 2022. The regulator will hold an in-person consultation in Budapest on September 29. Online comments are due by September 28. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Australian regulator, the ACMA, is consulting on amendments to its Radiocommunications (Low Interference Potential Devices) Class Licences to support 5G and the Internet of Things. These changes have relevance to: wireless broadband in the 24.25 - 25.10 GHz band IoT devices in the 928 - 935 MHz and VHF… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Europe’s technical authority, the Electronic Communications Committee, has issued a consultation on a draft decision on Railway Mobile Radio. Draft ECC Decision (20)02 would concern harmonised use of the paired frequency bands 874.4-880.0 MHz and 919.4-925.0 MHz and of the unpaired frequency band 1900-1910 MHz for Railway Mobile Radio (RMR).… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Belgian regulator has issued a consultation about a draft decision that would allow co-existence between GSM-R at 876.1 - 879.9 / 921.1 - 924.9 MHz and public mobile at 880.1 - 914.9 / 925.1 - 959.9 MHz. The consultation is open to public comment until July 7. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The French telecoms regulator, ARCEP, has issued a consultation about a proposed network sharing agreement between Digicel and Free Caraibe in some French Overseas Territories. The proposed agreement would involve sharing of the 800 MHz and 900 MHz bands. ARCEP is accepting comments until July 10. Read more...
by Toby Youell
June 2, 2020: ANACOM has resumed this consultation. The new deadline for public comments is July 3. March 24, 2020: ANACOM has suspended the deadline for this consultation. This decision follows a request from the country's mobile operators. February 12, 2020 The Portuguese regulator, ANACOM, has issued its draft auction… Read more...
by Toby Youell
May 14, 2020: The ACMA has now published this consultation paper here. The consultation will close on July 8. May 11, 2020 The Australian regulator, the ACMA, will soon issue a consultation on how it should award the 850/900 MHz band. The regulator decided in December 2019 that it would… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The Australian communications regulator, the ACMA, has issued its draft five-year spectrum outlook 2020-24 to a public consultation. The document includes how it intends to: revise and update its forward allocation plan plan for private long-term evolution networks explore new bands for monitoring set out a detailed work plan for… Read more...
by Toby Youell
Europe's technical authority, Electronic Communications Committee (ECC), has issued a consultation on compatibility of Railway Mobile Radio and mobile broadband in three frequency bands. Its studies are set out in draft ECC Report 318, which concerns compatibility between RMR and MFCN in the 900 MHz range, the 1900-1920 MHz band and… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The European technical authority, the Electronic Communications Committee has issued a consultation about coexistence between RMR in the 900 MHz band and other applications in adjacent bands. It is inviting comments on draft ECC Report 313, which discusses the subject, until March 31. Read more...