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With a budget of €18 million, the European Commission is hoping to fund projects exploring the "novel use" of spectrum from 90 GHz to the terahertz bands.

Study groups are looking into identifying harmonised frequency bands above 24 GHz for some Internet of Things (IoT) applications as part of the development of IMT-2020, says Colin Langtry, Chief…

The Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) said it would “keep abreast” of developments in the review of the EU Regulatory Framework for communications, but that the main discussion is now…

The new version of LightSquared, now called Ligado Networks, has settled its dispute with several GPS providers and is seeking spectrum licence modifications from the US regulator. But the company's…

The South African government wants commercial and governmental spectrum licence holders to prove they are using their spectrum.

As part of World Radio Day, Qatar's Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) announced that it was the first regulator in the Gulf to assign spectrum to organisations to provide PPDR services.

The computer magnate’s investment firm is one of many that bought up smaller TV stations who now find themselves holding valuable spectrum assets. The company could make 160 times its…

US operator has bolstered its position in the band through acquisitions from "multiple parties".

President Barack Obama's final budget proposal seeks to authorise the Federal Communications Commission to set fees for unauctioned spectrum licences. But the idea has been tossed around before without going…

A Facebook employee has filed a patent stating that the firm plans to explore a “next generation data system” to connect devices using millimetre wave (mmWave) radio links as a…

Dutch communications minister Henk Kamp has pledged to put the country's digital terrestrial TV (DTT) licence up for auction this summer. The successful bidder will have to stop using the…

James Clerk Maxwell, the 19th century scientist whose theory of electromagnetic radiation was likened by Einstein to Newton’s unifying theory of physics, has lost out to Mary Somerville in the…

The ITU classifies spectrum bands as "mobile," "fixed," "broadcast" and so on. But as the boundaries between these categories blur, bands should be differentiated by the interference levels they generate,…

Pan-European regulatory body CEPT will issue a report this year on the growing problem of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS or drones) causing interference in several spectrum bands.

The UK is trying a carrot and stick approach to get rid of FM pirates: tougher enforcement matched with an innovative approach that brings down the cost of digital radio.…