While sharing infrastructure is not a new concept for mobile operators, several factors, including the global financial meltdown, are forcing them to cozy up to each other in new ways in order to remain competitive. Most of these new arrangements involve network sharing in one form or another, but signal… Read more...

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Economists have had a love affair with the mobile sector. Frustrated by years of struggling with fixed line telecoms – where competition was inevitably limited by the incumbent’s ownership of the network – mobile telecoms came as a breath of fresh air. 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...

Denmark’s 800 MHz auction has ended with three of the four mobile operators who picked up 2.6 GHz spectrum in May 2010 also winning licences in the lower band. This will allow them to roll out in rural areas. Read more...

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Electric cars that recharge wirelessly as you drive along the motorway or wait at traffic lights. Context-aware mobile devices that automatically text your spouse when you’re nearly home or order your favourite drink at a restaurant. Mobile phones activated by your body scent. These are just some of the visions… Read more...

Administered incentive pricing (AIP) has led to more efficient spectrum use, according to Ofcom’s director of international spectrum policy Chris Woolford. Read more...

Market-based spectrum management policies are the only way to meet the burgeoning demand for mobile broadband and innovation, Intel executive director for communications and associate general counsel Peter Pitsch said on 20 June. Speaking at a conference in Brussels, he argued that one technical solution to spectrum scarcity is leased… Read more...