by Richard Handford
India’s government has issued a draft notification to delicense the lower part of the 6 GHz band and is making progress with its strategy for IMT in the upper part of the band. Read more...
by Richard Handford
TRAI has proposed a method for calculating the price of administratively awarded satellite licences. Read more...
by Richard Handford
A sale would make India one of the few countries in the world to have assigned the band for IMT. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The cabinet has approved a widespread reassignment of spectrum currently held by the public sector to 5G and 6G. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The Australian government will release a discussion paper on the future of free-to-air broadcasting in early 2025, says the country’s communications minister Michelle Rowland. Read more...
by Richard Handford
Reliance Jio appears to have been defeated in its bid to get a discussion of auctions included in regulator TRAI’s consultation paper alongside the administrative assignment of satellite spectrum. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The two-day contest raised INR 113.4 billion ($1.35 billion), a significant sum of money although by India's standards a muted affair focused on legacy spectrum bands. Read more...
by Richard Handford
A Department of Telecommunications (DoT) official described Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), the US-based dynamic shared access system, as “under active consideration” for India. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The organisation that runs India's railways has asked the government for a further 2 x 5 MHz in the sought-after 700 MHz band—an assignment worth more than $2 billion in normal circumstances. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The new law is the biggest change to the country’s telecoms legislation in decades and has significant implications for spectrum management. Read more...