The German regulator is being accused of favouring incumbents after the announcement of its plans to sell off former analogue TV frequencies. Read more...

The US regulator has given itself four months to come up with new proposals for D-block, the spectrum which failed to sell at last year's 700MHz auction. The FCC still favours a public/private partnership but the policy-making process is being hampered by a lack of consensus among the public safety… Read more...

The current head of the French frequency agency is to be a candidate for ITU's top job in spectrum management. Read more...

Should we welcome European regulators’ historic shift to talk about authorisations rather than licences? It may have benefits in Europe, argues Robert Horvitz, but the advantages elsewhere are questionable. Read more...

New Zealand has finally got a third mobile operator but the company has launched a scathing attack on national spectrum policy. Read more...

A lack of spectrum, legal recognition and safe coordination with existing aircraft traffic are all issues to be resolved before commercial unmanned aircraft services can get off the ground. Read more...

Fifty years ago this month, spectrum management began to change. Economist Roland Coase – later to win a Nobel prize – wrote an academic paper which called for a market-based approach to spectrum licensing. This much quoted work became the cornerstone of the liberalisers’ approach. Here we look at what… Read more...

Coase’s 1959 article was certainly influential, but how applicable is it today? Has it set the framework for modern spectrum management? We asked the man himself – now 98 years old – as well as some of the leading thinkers in the field. Read more...

Iraq has just been named as the Arab World’s most competitive cellular market by the Arab Advisors Group, replacing Jordan which topped the Cellular Competition Intensity Index the previous two years. Read more...

The EU hopes to finalize - at last - the review of its telecommunications rules (‘telecom package’) by the end of the year. The negotiations between member states and Parliament on a copyright dispute are stalled but are expected to restart in October. Read more...