by Catherine Viola
The emerging “Weightless” standard for machine communications in TV white spaces reached another milestone in May when members of the Weightless Special Interest Group (SIG) approved version 0.7 of the draft specification at the inaugural Weightless Plenary Conference, held near Cambridge in the UK. Read more...
by Martin Sims
The Brussels–commissioned study has also underlined the inherent difficulties of measuring spectrum efficiency. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
Utility companies in the Philippines are lobbying the government to waive spectrum usage fees (SUFs) as they start to build out smart grids for tens of millions of households. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
The Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) is doing its best to ensure there is a new entrant in the mobile market following a proposed three-band auction of spectrum for technology-neutral wireless broadband services. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
The Macedonian Agency for Electronic Communications (AEK) has launched a public call to find a company to build and operate the digital terrestrial television (DTT) broadcast platform and network once the analogue signal is switched off. Read more...
by Catherine Viola
Over 150 delegates convened in April for a summit to mark the end of the white spaces trial held in Cambridge in the UK. Set up to help the UK regulator Ofcom finalise the protection requirements for digital terrestrial TV (DTT) and PMSE services, the 10-month trial demonstrated that diverse… Read more...
by Jonathan Watson
Austrian regulator the TKK has decided to delay a planned auction of spectrum in the 800, 900 and 1800 MHz bands due to ongoing market consolidation involving three of the country’s four operators. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
In what Chairman Julius Genachowski called its “first significant action” towards putting spectrum incentive auction legislation into effect, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved rules allowing broadcasters to share a single channel. In addition, US legislators have introduced a bill requiring the regulator to allocate and auction the government's… Read more...
by Catherine Viola
A Cambridge Wireless special interest group convened in London in April to consider whether radio can deliver the home area network (HAN) for future smart energy in Great Britain (GB). While wireless is emerging as the preferred technology option, the forum heard that there is no single radio solution that… Read more...