Ofcom has revised a consultation document which gave the impression an EU Directive allowing UMTS in the GSM bands would become UK law by November. Read more...

Britain’s two-month-old coalition government has grasped the nettle of spectrum reform by introducing a revised version of stalled legislation which wasn't passed in the last Parliament. Read more...

Citing a deluge of letters and e-mails seeking clarity on its spectrum licensing process, South African regulator ICASA has withdrawn its invitation to apply (ITA), saying a revised document is likely “in the financial year”. Read more...

Kip Meek, arguably the most influential figure in the UK’s proposed but stalled spectrum reforms, has been appointed to a very different new post - chairman of Project Canvas. Read more...

The debate over control of the 10 MHz US “D Block” spectrum is spilling over into Congress, where several rival bills are pending or expected. Read more...

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Following a consultation earlier this year, Singapore’s telecoms regulator has rejected suggestions from the country’s three mobile operators that remaining 3G spectrum simply be allocated to them and decided to go ahead with an open auction in the autumn. Read more...

Malta’s newly announced plan for assigning the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands includes spectrum caps, “use or lose” clauses and a possible auction. Read more...

A nationwide LTE network in the US run wholly over spectrum previously set aside for satellite mobile communications has taken a huge step closer to reality with a $7 billion contract being awarded for the network rollout. Read more...

There is a fault with the Safari browser which prevents access to secure sites like Policytracker i.e. those starting httpS:// rather than http:// You will a message like this: "Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled… Read more...