Ireland’s CTVR, a national telecommunications research centre, has launched a major initiative to bring TV white space trials to the country. The initiative comes as Ireland prepares to switch off analogue TV on 24 October 2012. Read more...

In its biggest spectrum announcement for years the US regulator has made the world's first concrete proposals for broadcasters to sell their UHF spectrum as well as reacting to the concentration of the US mobile market by starting a review of spectrum holdings. Read more...

Indonesia’s planned auction of the country’s remaining unallocated 2.1 GHz spectrum has been put on hold yet again, this time because the country’s largest mobile operator has been declared bankrupt by a Jakarta court. Read more...

Results of the Romanian multi-band 4G auction which started on September 12 have been announced by regulator ANCOM, with all five participants winning lots and paying a total of €682 million for 485 MHz of spectrum. The big surprise was the amount of 2.6 GHz spectrum remaining unsold. Read more...

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Mexico has confirmed it is adopting the Asia-Pacific (APT) band plan for the 700 MHz band (channels 52–69, 698–806 MHz). Read more...

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has failed to make any additional spectrum available for wireless broadband in the more than two years since the National Broadband Plan called for 500 MHz to be freed up by 2020, said FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai in a 14 September speech to the US… Read more...

Croatian regulator Hakom has issued a call for bids for licences to use spectrum in the 790–862 MHz digital dividend band. Read more...

The European Commission has called for a new common regulatory approach to spectrum sharing in the EU in order to maximise the benefits of next-generation wireless technologies such as LTE. Read more...