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The US regulator is seeking input on several proposed changes to the rules governing priority access licenses (PALs) in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service band. It's billing the…

Inmarsat has declined to comment in detail on the claims from ViaSat, which is taking legal action against the European Commission over the Mobile Satellite Service (MSS). 

Inmarsat said the satellite providing the MSS service was completed by July 2016 but ViaSat has pointed to documents suggesting it was not ready seven months later. Inmarsat has declined…

The "project of increasing the effectiveness of our use of spectrum by sharing is still not so much in the foothills, but with the foothills still in fairly distant view,"…

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.