World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) agenda items 7, 9.1 and 9.2 always concern recurring issues that regularly require amendments to the Radio Regulations. The increased use of these items is now…
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that raises the prospect of an auction of 2.5 GHz spectrum in the mostly rural areas where it…
Decades after the "green revolution" in agriculture, the use of UHF spectrum is driving big changes in farming.
The satellite industry is proposing to study changing the Radio Regulations to address the use of the L-band for data relays for non-geostationary satellites (NGSOs).
China is promoting its terrestrial broadcasting standard and funding the digital switchover in various developing countries.
The US plans to award various mmWave bands for 5G at the county or partial economic area level, while in the C-band it plans to share the spectrum, allowing exclusive…
The Spanish government has proposed to increase fees for 5G frequencies by a factor of 13 in its budget for the coming fiscal year.
A globally harmonized 2.4 GHz band enabled economies of scale for RLANs. Problems with incumbents meant this was not the case in all of the 5 GHz band, but what…
The US regulator's proposals to allow the commercial exploitation of millimetre wave radio frequencies above 95 GHz are flawed, according to one of its former policy chiefs. Space agency NASA…
Thai regulator NBTC may have backed away from supporting operators AIS and True Move's appeal for relief from billions of dollars of auction payments, but the fallout from the controversial…
The European Commission (EC) has welcomed the verdict from Europe’s highest court that dictates which legal form the Council of the EU should follow to adopt a joint European position…
US regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided at its monthly open meeting to consult on its plans to auction spectrum in the 24 GHz band this November alongside licences…
The multi-year European Union pan-African programme funds various projects, one of which seeks to create a more harmonised regulatory environment for the rollout of information and communication technology, with an…
Chinese manufacturer Huawei has condemned the global hype over 5G, claiming that average consumers would find no "fundamental and material differences between 4G and 5G".
Canadian plans for auctioning 600 MHz spectrum call for a significant set-aside to encourage greater competition. But set-asides have been tried in the past and have so far failed to…