The idea of pan-European spectrum regulation has been circling for decades, and it has now led to an overhaul of spectrum governance in the European Commission's proposed Digital Networks Act. Read more...

The EU’s 5G rollout has been built around the harmonised “pioneer bands”: 700 MHz, 3.4–3.8 GHz, and 26 GHz. Six years after the deadline for member states to hold auctions of this spectrum, the European Commission has concluded that 5G rollout has been inadequate and has launched an overhaul of… Read more...

Europe is currently looking at a harmonised approach for the upper 6 GHz band. Read more...

Decisions about spectrum use in Europe are made both at the national and EU level. This research note explores the EU spectrum policy framework. Read more...

Fragmented and often delayed 5G spectrum awards across the Balkans have created a widening deployment gap between EU and non‑EU markets in the region. Read more...

This year, Digi is using its fibre networks and selective 5G spectrum purchases to expand from its Romanian base into Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy and the UK. Read more...

China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile operator, has more than one billion subscribers. At the end of December 2025, the company had a total subscriber base of over 1.005 billion. Read more...

Reliance Jio Infocomm is the largest mobile operator in India by subscriber count. It launched from scratch ten years ago and now dominates the market. And since 2025, the company has become the largest fixed wireless access (FWA) operator in the world. Read more...

With over 10,000 satellites in orbit and megaconstellations such as Starlink growing fast, figuring out what to do with satellites once they stop working has become a major challenge. Read more...

What did the telecoms industry do this year to reduce its environmental footprint? Read more...