A new wireless standard could create a nationwide white space network for between £50 million and £100 million rather than the £4 billion typical cost of a mobile network, it's claimed. The Weightless standard has been designed primarily for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, but could also be used for media content… Read more...

Allocating spectrum in the 700 MHz broadcast band to mobile services could bring around $15 billion into the Latin American economy and expand mobile coverage to nearly 93 per cent of the population, according to a report presented on 22 September at the ITU global symposium for regulators in Armenia,… Read more...

Allocating spectrum in the 700 MHz broadcast band to mobile services could bring around $15 billion into the Latin American economy and expand mobile coverage to nearly 93 per cent of the population, according to a report presented on 22 September at the ITU global symposium for regulators in Armenia,… Read more...

French regulator ARCEP has awarded spectrum in the 2.6 GHz band to the country’s four main mobile operators. Read more...

French regulator ARCEP has awarded spectrum in the 2.6 GHz band to the country’s four main mobile operators. Read more...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is working with the country’s mobile operators to arrange spectrum swaps in the fragmented 1800 MHz band to allow the launch of LTE before the digital dividend 700 MHz band becomes available. Read more...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is working with the country’s mobile operators to arrange spectrum swaps in the fragmented 1800 MHz band to allow the launch of LTE before the digital dividend 700 MHz band becomes available. Read more...

Guatemala and El Salvador have taken novel approaches to spectrum allocation but their regimes aren’t likely to set a trend despite global interest in greater spectrum liberalisation. Read more...

Guatemala and El Salvador have taken novel approaches to spectrum allocation but their regimes aren’t likely to set a trend despite global interest in greater spectrum liberalisation. Read more...

Spain’s ministry of industry, tourism and communications (MITYC) is planning a new auction to allocate the spectrum that was left unsold at the end of its previous auction, held in July. Read more...