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Who will win the private 5G network market?
Nov 16, 2022
by Richard Haas

Panellists at the Total Telecom Congress suggested that partnerships between players could be the way forward for the private network market. Read more...

Smart farming, using UHF spectrum, is helping to modernise agriculture
May 11, 2018
by Manuel R. Marti

Decades after the "green revolution" in agriculture, the use of UHF spectrum is driving big changes in farming. Read more...

End of US incentive auction will boost TV white space, says DSA
Apr 05, 2018
by Martin Sims

Interest in the technology is growing now the conclusion of US 600 MHz auction is bringing regulatory certainty, says Kalpak Gude, President of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance, in an interview with PolicyTracker. Read more...

Dynamic Spectrum Alliance updates model rules for TVWS devices – but will they matter?
Jan 12, 2018
by Dugie Standeford

Revamped Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) model rules for TV white space (TVWS) technology seek to encourage the rollout of TVWS networks in order to close the digital divide and enable the Internet of Things (IoT). But while the DSA claims the use of TVWS is on the rise, one regulator… Read more...

New US coalition pushes for more TVWS spectrum for rural broadband
Jan 08, 2018
by Dugie Standeford

Connect Americans Now (CAN) wants to bring affordable, reliable broadband to over 20 million people in rural areas using TV white space (TVWS) technology. Could the initiative help drive greater use of TVWS spectrum? Read more...

“At some point, there will be an end to the FCC”
Aug 11, 2017
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...

Two years on, Globalstar’s TLPS network remains controversial… and unapproved
Oct 05, 2016
by Dugie Standeford

Globalstar has been waiting for over two years for regulatory permission to roll out a terrestrial low power service (TLPS) using mobile satellite service (MSS) spectrum. Now it's pressing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to act quickly, despite ongoing opposition from wireless communications providers. Read more...

Microsoft releases spectrum observatory source code
Apr 22, 2014
by Jonathan Watson

Microsoft has released all the source code for the Microsoft Spectrum Observatory under an open source software licence, a move that the company hopes “will increase opportunity for collaboration with academics, governments and others interested in learning more about how wireless spectrum is used”. Read more...

Microsoft questioned over spectrum observatory project
Jan 16, 2014
by Toby Youell

Microsoft's director of international technology affairs Jim Beveridge came under fire this week at a workshop organised by the European Communications Committee (ECC). Read more...

Microsoft wants a wiser approach to white spaces
Oct 10, 2013
by Dugie Standeford

Could indoor white spaces in vacant UHF and VHF TV channels significantly boost indoor use of wireless technologies in cities? Researchers from Microsoft Research and The Chinese University of Hong Kong think so, and have proposed a system for identifying and tracking such spectrum inside buildings. Others argue that the… Read more...