by Dugie Standeford
The national public safety broadband network, reorganisation of TV spectrum and spectrum incentive auctions recently approved by the US Congress could bring massive benefits to the economy, panellists said during a Broadband US TV webcast last week. But the measure, which sparked huge controversy as it worked its way through… Read more...
by Michael Newlands
There could be a first new entrant in the Singapore mobile market since StarHub was licensed in May 1998, if the regulator’s 4G auction proposals go according to plan. Read more...
by Jonathan Watson
The Finnish government has adopted a resolution stating that it plans to auction 2 x 30 MHz of spectrum in the 800 MHz band by the end of next year. Read more...
by Martin Sims
This month Bahrain is due to publish its initial plans to award a total of 145 MHz in the 2.6 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 1.9 GHz, 1800 MHz and 900 MHz bands. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
As the ITU publishes a report in which it claims broadband, including wireless broadband, is the key to creating a low-carbon economy, the European Commission (EC) is consulting on where the spectrum to power smart grids and smart metering, which are an integral part of the ITU vision, will come… Read more...
by Catherine Viola
Deploying small cells could save mobile operators millions of euros, Alcatel-Lucent’s Michel Grech told Cambridge Wireless’s Small Cell Special Interest Group (SIG) last week. The cost advantage over a five-year period compared with rolling out new macro cells could be 55 per cent for dense urban areas, delegates heard. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
LTE growth is accelerating around the world in terms of operator commitments and commercial launches as well as subscriber numbers. Verizon and NTT DoCoMo, the largest operators in the US and Japan respectively, are doing particularly well. Read more...
by Catherine Viola
This is the bullish conclusion of Understanding Weightless. Technology, Equipment, and Network Deployment for M2M Communications in White Space*, written by William Webb, CTO of Cambridge start-up Neul and one of the chief architects of the “Weightless” white space technology standard. Read more...
by Michael Newlands
Government bodies are playing the blame game as top Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom threatens to pull out of a planned joint venture LTE network because the government is trying to substitute the promised 700 MHz spectrum with 2.6 GHz spectrum. Read more...