by Toby Youell
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on draft regulations it would make in relation to its planned auction of the 700 MHz and 3.6 - 3.8 GHz bands. These draft regulations would give effect to policies that are subject to a separate consultation, which also closes on… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on several proposals that would allow greater spectrum sharing. This includes allowing companies to make simple requests to Ofcom for spectrum access within specific locations across three bands: DECT Guard Band (1781.7 - 1785 MHz + 1876.7 - 1880 MHz), 2390… Read more...
by Toby Youell
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on its plans to award the 700 MHz and 3.6 GHz bands. The draft plans include measures aimed at improving the country's mobile operators' coverage, such as auction discounts for operators committed to substantive improvements in coverage. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on the annual licence fees payable by UK Broadband for its spectrum licences in the 3.4 GHz and 3.6 GHz bands. Ofcom has recently agreed to amend UK Broadband's 3.6 GHz band licence in several ways. Read more...
by Toby Youell
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on its Annual Plan for 2019/2020. It includes information about its plans to auction the 700 MHz and 3.6 - 3.8 GHz bands. Read more...
by Patrick Gahan
Ofcom is holding a consultation on the United Kingdom's preparations for World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19). The consultation is seeking feedback on Ofcom's views and priorities for WRC-19 including Ofcom's views on the proposed 5G bands. Read more...
by Patrick Gahan
The United Kingdom's Ofcom is seeking views on the regulator's plans for supporting programme-making and special event (PMSE) users as they are moved out of the 700 MHz band. As part of plans to clear incumbent services from the 700 MHz band in order to make it available for mobile… Read more...
by Patrick Gahan
The United Kingdom's Ofcom has called for expressions of interest in using small scale digital audio broadcasting (DAB). Existing licences cover regions and the small scale licences could be at most 40% of the size of the current licences. The full consultation document can be viewed here. Read more...
by Patrick Gahan
The United Kingdom's Ofcom has published a consultation seeking feedback on extending the unlicensed portion of the 57 - 71 GHz band and making changes to the technical conditions. The proposals apply to both short range devices and fixed wireless systems. Full details can be found on Ofcom's website here and… Read more...
by Patrick Gahan
UK Broadband has asked to change its the licence in the lower of its two frequency blocks in this band. It wants to shift it down by 5 MHz and surrendering its rights to use 4 MHz of spectrum. Ofcom is minded to agree but is inviting comments. The full consultation… Read more...