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WRC-15 has agreed to put spectrum for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) on the agenda for WRC-19. These include applications that could alert motorists about upcoming hazards, and could one day…

Japan has assigned spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band for TD-LTE services.

The chair of WRC-15 Festus Daudu has urged delegations to be more cooperative over the identification of spectrum for IMT.

The Israeli and Palestinian governments have reached an agreement that will see Palestinian mobile operators gain exclusive licences for spectrum in the 2.1 GHz band.

We round up some of the issues that will be tackled in the final week of WRC-15.

Speaking at the 2015 ECTA Regulatory Conference, senior representatives from the Dutch, French, and UK regulators rejected calls from the European Commission and two telcos for moves to centralise spectrum…

Anna Strezynska, the former head of Poland’s telecoms regulator UKE, has been appointed to the post of Minister of Administration and Digitisation in the country’s new government.

France's mobile operators have agreed to pay €2.796 billion for 2 x 30 MHz in the 700 MHz band after a two-day allocation round of a first price package clock…

Like GSM, the Internet of Things (IoT) needs regulatory assistance if it is to fulfil its potential, according to the Wireless IoT Forum. The German engineering and manufacturing giant Bosch…

A 4 GHz block of contiguous spectrum (77–81 GHz) will now be available for short-range automotive radar following a decision taken by the World Radiocommunication Conference last week. This decision…

In this issue we focus on the last of the preparations for WRC-15, which got underway at the beginning of November. We also report on the latest developments in 5G,…

Supporters of a change to the Radio Regulations to allow unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to be controlled through spectrum allocated to the fixed satellite service (FSS) have produced a joint…

Two of Thailand’s operators have acquired 1800 MHz licences at an auction for a total of Bt80.78 billion ($2.2 billion).

WRC-15 has agreed to allocate 1087.7–1092.3 MHz to the Aeronautical Mobile-Satellite (Route) Service (Earth-to-space) specifically for reception of space stations of Automatic Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) emissions from aircraft transmitters.

A total of 9.15 MHz in the 850 MHz band will be sold through a reverse auction next month.