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Asked about the European Commission’s decision to take legal action against the European Council over member states’ WRC-15 negotiating position, representatives of CEPT and the French spectrum agency ANFR said…

The proposed grouping would be coordinated by Brussels, comprise spectrum chiefs from regulators and deal with more political issues.

Dutch telco KPN has won the right to continue operating digital terrestrial TV (DTT) in the 700 MHz band until 2030 after an unnamed second bidder pulled out of an…

Although the group is an industry standardisation group (ISG) under the auspices of ETSI, its chair Simon Fell told PolicyTracker its members are to use it as a vehicle to…

Vodafone group chief executive Vittorio Colao has said the UK’s decision to leave the EU means possible exclusion from the "digital single market" (DSM), adding that the company may have…

Moves to make the 470-694 MHz band available for digital terrestrial TV (DTT) in Europe when the 694-790 MHz band shifts to mobile are proceeding in coordination bodies and the…

Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) says it plans to launch an auction of spectrum in the the 700 MHz band in 2018. It has also now assigned all the…

ComReg commissioner Gerry Fahy has told PolicyTracker that the regulator’s upcoming release of spectrum in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band (as well as the 700 MHz, 1.4 GHz, 2.3 GHz and…

A pilot sharing service is in operation in the 2.3 GHz band ahead of a decision to deploy ETSI-sanctioned licensed shared access (LSA) in the Netherlands. Juul Moen of the…

In this month's issue we report on the European Commission's commitment to its 2020 deadline for EU member states to reassign 700 MHz spectrum and the initial reactions to the…

Takehiro Nakamura, managing director of Japanese firm Docomo's 5G lab, has said its target 5G bands are 3.4-3.8 GHz, 4.4-4.99 GHz and 27.5-29.5 GHz. He hopes Europe will work on…

The UK referendum result creates difficulties for the European Commission’s "digital single market" aims and a British chair of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group could pose problems for the telecoms…

Following a discussion at the 11th Spectrum Management Conference in Brussels last week, director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau François Rancy responded (along with other ITU representatives) to criticisms of…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on 14 July on a proposal to open up almost 11 GHz of spectrum for 5G. The idea is to get ahead of…

Speaking at an event in Brussels, the head of spectrum at UK mobile operator EE argued that the harmonisation of spectrum licensing would not make for uniform consumer preferences across…