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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has told Policy Tracker that it will accelerate the release of millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum, particularly at 26 GHz, for 5G. This is the…

After the failed 2015 auction, which only ended after the government intervened, Poland's auditor says the law needs to change.

As the first inter-institutional talks on the Electronic Communications Code (ECC) get underway today, the European Council (representing EU member state governments) has signalled broad support for full agreement on the…

As the European Council debates the Electronic Communications Code (ECC) today, a Commission-sponsored study recommends coordinated timing of awards but says member states should have autonomy over many aspects of…

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has awarded Google a licence to operate its stratospheric helium balloons in Puerto Rico, but connectivity on the 4G system is limited to text…

Poland’s regulator UKE is mulling plans to sell spectrum in the 450 MHz band, but critics of the process claim the spectrum has been undervalued.

26 GHz was identified as a 5G candidate band at WRC-19 and 28 GHz was not. But in the real world, the distinction seems to be blurring. This was highlighted…

Only five of 50 Asia-Pacific (AP) countries have completed the shift from analogue to digital terrestrial TV (DTT), and most of the others don't seem in any rush to follow,…

Richard Thaler, who was awarded the Nobel prize in economic science last week, is viewed as a pioneer of behavioural economics and a leading advocate for the "nudge theory" of…

PolicyTracker can reveal details of Italy's auction of spectrum in the 700 MHz, 3.6–3.8 GHz and 26.5-27.5 GHz bands, which the government is expected to agree on today.

Further trials in the 3.7 GHz band in Germany are on the way, says chief technology and innovation officer Claudia Nemat.

The Indian regulator is planning an auction of spectrum in nine bands. Given the mobile industry's current "cash crunch", such an auction isn't likely to spark much interest, one telecoms…

Franz Ziegelwanger of Austrian regulator RTR, who is leading the RSPG’s work on spectrum for programme making and special events (PMSE), told last week's RSPG workshop in Warsaw that the release…

Top US regulator Michael O'Rielly has said that the US should have a larger role in the leadership of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Senior representatives from Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone called on the European Commission’s radio spectrum advisory body to open up peer reviews, following waning European institutional support for mandatory reviews.