by Richard Haas
New regulatory filings reveal that the company is hoping to use the 71—76 GHz and 81—86 GHz bands, which are not yet being used for commercial services. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Regulators should focus less on spectrum auctions to drive broadband availability in underserved areas and more on the economic and GDP value of accelerating connectivity, according to Facebook vice president Dan Rabinovitsj. Read more...
by Toby Youell
Many of the future non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite constellations that plan to provide internet connectivity to underserved areas may rely on fixed-satellite service bands where there is currently no regulatory framework for them. Read more...
by Kane Mumford
PolicyTracker recently discussed 5G with Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, chief technical officer at Deutsche Telekom. Read more...
by Kane Mumford
PolicyTracker interviewed Thomas W. Hazlett, former chief economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and author of 'The Political Spectrum', on the public good, "revolving door" regulators and Clint Eastwood. Read more...
by Kane Mumford
Ofcom also supports truncating the 66-76 GHz band to focus on 66-71 GHz for international 5G study and setting the same technical conditions for the three bands falling within 37-43.5 GHz. Read more...
by Kane Mumford
Google and Apple have both been getting more interested in spectrum. Are they doing anything new? Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
The auction, which aimed to clear broadcasters out of 144 MHz of spectrum in the 600 MHz band for wireless services, ended up clearing only 84 MHz. Some call that a failure, while others, including an FCC commissioner, say it's a successful enough experiment to encourage more such auctions down… Read more...
by Richard Feasey
Richard Feasey asks whether the virtualisation movement will see networks controlled by IT giants such as Google and Facebook and wonders what effect this will have on vendors and operators. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Spectrum availability is the biggest challenge facing the radio access network (RAN) in connection with 5G, according to around one-third of 800 telecoms industry executives surveyed for a new report. Read more...