Spectrum usually isn't a particularly partisan issue in the US but the Trump Administration's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) could be setting up a clash over access to unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi. Read more...

Bruised from previous WRC cycles, Wi-Fi advocates had focussed on national regulators to open up the 6 GHz for licence-exempt/unlicensed access, rather than taking the fight to the ITU. But WRC-19's decision to consider portions of the band for mobile broadband (IMT) at WRC-23, means that the industry has been… Read more...

Amazon and Apple may both be more recent arrivals on the spectrum policy stage but their priorities are quite different as our two new Research Notes explain. Amazon is focussed on the unlicensed spectrum on which its devices, services and fulfilment centres rely. But it also has interests in drone… Read more...