We've added new research on 5G rollout in the European Union and updates to reflect the potential impact of the proposed Digital Networks Act. Read more...

Europe’s telecoms market has been thrown into a fresh bout of soul‑searching as Brussels unveils its Digital Networks Act, a once‑in‑a‑decade rewrite of the rulebook that promises a single market for connectivity. Read more...

One of the key findings of our private networks benchmark update is that Europe is making good progress. Read more...

We are very pleased to announce the release of a report which we have been working on for the past year as part of a consortium with LS telcom and VVA. Read more...

Mobile operators spend a lot of money at spectrum auctions. That's been the case for many years. Read more...

One of the clearest spectrum management trends in the last few years is the allocation of the 6 GHz band for licence-exempt/unlicensed services. With some notable exceptions (such as China), the vast majority of the G20 group, which represents around 90% of global economic activity, have made significant moves to… Read more...

Many think of cold, snow-covered Finland and warm, sunny Italy as very different countries. Perhaps it is not surprising that their spectrum auctions have produced very different outcomes. Over the years, the home of Nokia has gained a reputation for carrying out affordable and exemplary spectrum assignments. When Finnish incumbent… Read more...

With a growing focus on global warming, attention is increasingly turning to what role the telecoms sector can or should play in saving the planet. Leading operators and equipment vendors are starting to put sustainability at the core of their product strategies, and regulators are also thinking about how they… Read more...

European countries have long claimed to be global leaders in mobile technology. However, after severe delays in spectrum assignments, Europe's 5G strategy is running into serious problems.  The European Union had envisaged that all member states would auction licences in the 700 MHz, 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands and… Read more...

An O2 network failure in the UK has shown how mobile underpins vital infrastructure but is Huawei the right target for our national security fears? Even the EU is now expressing concerns. Chinese technology companies are an emerging powerhouse and banning them may soon be impractical as well as self-defeating. Read more...