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Indian regulator Trai’s refusal to reconsider the starting prices for the upcoming major auction of 4G and 5G spectrum has left the country's government considering a number of options for…

Revenues from the sale of the 3.7–4.2 GHz band in the US could be shared between the federal government and satellite operators, according to new “compromise” draft legislation.

The UK Spectrum Policy Forum has convened a closed group of experts to advise the government on what can be done to fully exploit dynamic spectrum access (DSA). 

Israel's government has published more details on the country's upcoming 5G auction which aims to encourage investment through incentives worth up to €125 million. 

US regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has decided to auction the white spaces around current deployments in the 2.5 GHz band.

The parliament of Lower Saxony in Germany has passed a resolution urging the regional government to cut funding for DAB+ digital radio. 

There is a reasonably solid consensus among European policymakers that spectrum sharing is becoming the norm. This leads to another question: does Europe need automated frequency coordination tools? 

Coexistence between fixed satellite services and 5G in the 3.5 GHz band in many Asian countries is embodied in the guard band that separates the two sides. 

5G promises to unlock growth across a wide range of business verticals, but newly emergent sectors are struggling to influence standards and that could hamper their development. 

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) plans to announce which millimetre wave (mmWave) bands the country will use for 5G by December 2019, with 26 GHz the obvious…

The Russian Federation has proposed removing some of the limits on the use of the 4.9 GHz band by mobile broadband (IMT in the jargon of the ITU Radiocommunication Sector).

A number of Asian countries are proposing 100 MHz guard bands between 5G and satellite operators in the C-band, but that doesn’t mean there is a consensus on the subject. 

Several recent spectrum auctions have used formats that differ significantly from traditional versions. Are these designs weird, or do they simply reflect changing thinking about the policy and regulatory objectives…

The director of spectrum at Sweden's regulator, Jonas Wessel, who also chairs the EU advisory body the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG), told delegates at the 14th Annual European Spectrum Management…

Canada plans to make spectrum available for 5G in the 3.5 GHz, 3.8 GHz and millimetre wave (mmWave) bands in the next three years.