China looks set to allocate more spectrum for LTE and award licences to the country’s three operators earlier than expected. Read more...

The telecoms regulators of two small countries on opposite sides of the world have bucked the international trend of calling what the ITU defines as 3G services 4G, and told mobile operators they are banned from using 4G as a marketing tool. Read more...

In a response to a government consultation on spectrum management until 2016, a New Zealand telecoms consultant has attacked the country’s management rights regime as being inefficient and bad for the consumer. Read more...

The UK government’s prediction that it will be able to raise £3.5 billion from an auction of 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum early in 2013 looks rather optimistic when compared to the sums raised in similar recent auctions. Read more...

Our top story this month asks whether network sharing can bring network operators into conflict with competition law. We also report from the 4th Annual Internet of Things Europe conference on the infrastructure and regulation that will be needed for the IoT and bring you the latest spectrum news from… Read more...

The year-long debate on the barring of dominant Colombian mobile operator, America Movil’s Claro unit, from the new AWS and 2.5 GHz auction appears to be nearing its conclusion with the government department, Mintic, producing a “final draft” of the auction terms. Mintic expects the auction to take place in… Read more...

Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) has announced plans to hold an auction of spectrum in the 420–422 MHz band in its recently published regulatory strategy document. Read more...

The recent set of events related to the Hewlett Packard acquisition of Autonomy seems to have little relation to the mobile and broadcast worlds and their future use of spectrum (for an in-depth briefing paper on HP fortunes to date, with its main product segments and analysis of future possible… Read more...

As the momentum builds towards the release of a second digital dividend (DD2) in the 700 MHz band in Europe and some other regions where the first dividend is at 800 MHz, the programme making and special events (PMSE) industry has claimed this will destroy “Cultural Europe”. Read more...

In our second report from this month’s 4th Annual Internet of Things Europe conference in Brussels, we focus on progress in Europe towards establishing a policy framework for the Internet of Things (IoT) and discuss how stakeholder views diverge on what policies might be needed. Read more...