French regulator ARCEP has decided to allow Bouygues Telecom to deploy LTE in the 1800 MHz band, provided the company hands back some of the spectrum it holds in the band and pays a fee for its technology neutral use of the frequency. Read more...

India’s second attempt to auction off licences confiscated last year by the country’s Supreme Court appears to have ended in failure, despite the reserve price having been slashed following a previous failed auction attempt. Read more...

Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) has awarded five licences for spectrum suitable for LTE services in the 1800 MHz band to mobile operators P4 and PTC. Read more...

Following a month-long consultation with industry players, Icelandic authorities will hold an auction of spectrum in the 800 MHz and 1800 MHz bands next month. 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...

UK regulator Ofcom’s decision to let Everything Everywhere (EE) refarm its 1800 MHz spectrum and use it for LTE has predictably enraged its competitors. EE’s sale of 2 x 15 MHz of spectrum to Hutchison’s Three network has also gone down badly with Vodafone and O2. Read more...

The Indian government has finally announced the key decisions that will permit the auction of the 800 and 1800 MHz spectrum vacated following the withdrawal of 122 regional licences which the country’s supreme court ruled had been corruptly awarded in 2008. Read more...

Magdalena Gaj, head of Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE), has announced that the country’s long-awaited 1800 MHz spectrum auction will be launched in late July 2012. This latest move follows the completion of a 30-day consultation phase opened by the regulator in late May. Read more...

Following a four-year process comprising eight consultations, numerous backing documents and independent reports from three expert advisors, Ireland’s Commission for Communications Regulation has come to a decision on the assignment of rights in the 800, 900 and 1800 MHz bands. Read more...

UK mobile operator Everything Everywhere plans to put 25 per cent of its 1800 MHz spectrum up for auction in the next month, according to a report in today’s Financial Times. Read more...