The Police Federation of Australia (PFA) has urged the country's prime minister Julia Gillard to “ensure the government does not put profit before public safety” and to reserve 20 MHz of digital dividend spectrum for use by the police and emergency services. Read more...

Sweden's 800 MHz auction ended on 4 March 2011 when six licences were awarded to the country's four main mobile operators. Read more...

UK rules introducing spectrum trading for Crown bodies in the 3400 - 3600 MHz band take effect in March, and Ministry of Defence (MoD) spectrum could be available for commercial use late next year. Crown bodies include UK government departments and other government-sponsored agencies. Read more...

With India’s spectrum scandals accentuating the problems of its much-criticised system for allocating 2G spectrum, the government is trying to draw a line in the sand with a set of new policies aimed at producing a market-driven, transparent telecoms sector. Read more...

Citing an “alarming lack” of telecoms services on American Indian tribal lands, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking ways to make more spectrum available for wireless uses. Read more...

A Romanian electronics industry association has written to the government to urge it to restart the country’s stalled digital switchover process. Read more...

Sweden’s auction to assign licences for the use of spectrum in the 800 MHz band started on 28 February. Read more...

3G and 4G licences will be auctioned in Belgium in June 2011 and autumn 2011 respectively, according to the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunication (BIPT). Read more...

Mobile spectrum needs were raised by administrations and commercial interests during a two-week WRC-12 preparatory meeting in a bid to spur proposals to include the issue on the agenda of the 2015 conference. Read more...

Ask the average citizen – or politician for that matter – in most countries what they understand by radio spectrum and the chances are you either won’t get an answer or it will be the wrong one. Not so in India, however, where allegedly massive scams involving the allocation of… Read more...