Ofcom has issued a consultation on its proposals to amend the UK radio regulations to incorporate several decisions that Ofcom has recently made. These decisions concern the use of the 870 - 876 MHz and 915 - 921 MHz bands on a licence-exempt basis; the land-based use of Earth Stations on Moving… Read more...

The UK regulator is inviting members of the public, as well as those working in the industries it regulates, to contribute to its work plan and priorities for the next financial year. The "invitation to comment" encourages anyone with an interest in Ofcom's activities to offer their views on which areas of… Read more...

The ECC's Working Group on Spectrum Engineering has issued ECC Report 207 for public consultation. The document sets out the European technical body's views on coexistence between short range devices (SRDs) and LTE, which in some places is used in the bands immediately below 863 MHz. Coexistence has been a… Read more...

Ofcom is conducting what should be the final consultation before the UK implements an EC Directive ordering liberalisation of the 900 and 1800 MHz bands, which are currently reserved for GSM. Subject to responses to this consultation, and the passage of a government direction now before Parliament, Ofcom intends to… Read more...

The European Communications Committee has put a document out to consultation that provides further technical characteristics relating to hand‑held reception of TV, audio, datacast and multimedia services and Programme Making and Special Events (PMSE). These are systems that have been identified as potential users of the L-band for which the… Read more...

Ofcom has issued a consultation concerning a specific aspect of its wider proposals to set annual spectrum licence fees that reflect the full market value of spectrum in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands. The document says the new consultation document concerns "the methodology that we propose to adopt if we were… Read more...

In previous statements Ofcom has said that licence-exempt cognitive devices using interleaved spectrum from the digital dividend should either sense the presence of other signals or  use a geolocation database to determine which spectrum was unused. In its July statement Ofcom put forward parameters for sensing but noted that further… Read more...

This report provides an overview of what cognitive radio is and how it works; compares approaches in the EU and the US; and identifies different regulatory frameworks in which it could operate. The RSPG also argues that a harmonised European approach will "exploit economies of scale and encourage industry investment".… Read more...

UK regulator Ofcom has launched a second consultation setting out revised proposals for the application of Administered Incentive Pricing to some aeronautical uses of spectrum, and in particular the use of VHF communications frequencies in the 117.975 to 137 MHz band. Ofcom proposes to start charging license fees for this… Read more...

The RSPG is seeking views on its draft work programme for 2010 before it is finalised. The draft includes: Drawing up the first Multiannual Radio Spectrum Policy Programme. Topics are likely to be technology neutrality, service neutrality, flexible spectrum management, promotion of spectrum trading and common policy objectives to improve spectrum efficiency. Common approaches to the… Read more...