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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved changes to its “designated entity” (DE) competitive bidding rules.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has pushed back votes on several items related to the TV spectrum incentive auction amid a ruckus over its new proposal for use of…

Growing architectural and financial strains could lead the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) to move its HQ to a cheaper location such as India or the United Arab Emirates.

Enrico Salvatori, Qualcomm’s senior vice president and president in Europe, says the company's vision of 5G will include a unified air interface that will scale to spectrum below 6 GHz,…

Mobile data traffic forecasts should be replaced with a “bootstrap” approach to spectrum demand based on what consumers are willing to pay, according to a report by Plum Consulting.

Italy's ministry of economic development is hosting an indoor trial of licensed shared access (LSA) in the 2.3 GHz band in Rome.

South Korea has the 2018 Winter Olympics, Japan has the 2020 Summer Olympics, but Europe lacks meaningful targets for 5G network deployment. That's according to Thibaut Kleiner, head of the…

This month we report on the decision by European administrations to oppose IMT identification for UHF spectrum between 470 and 694 MHz. We also assess the progress made towards digital…

As the next generation of mobile telephony arrives, regulators will have to decide how to enable the development of 5G mobile networks that could require channels as wide as 1…

The BRIght Target Explorer (BRITE) project launched a constellation of five cubesats (small satellites) in February 2013 in the hope of detecting the temperature and brightness variations of distant massive…

Amidst heightened security concerns, the French government has decided to reserve 2 x 8 MHz of spectrum for LTE-based PPDR as part of their arrangements for the upcoming 700 MHz…

The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN), a global group of major telecoms providers and “co-operation partners” such as 5GPPP, the GSMA and ETSI, plans to push for more spectrum…

Spectrum policy is absent from the political agreement reached two years after the European Commission released its original proposals.

A new report by the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG), the inter-governmental group that advises the European Commission on spectrum matters, has identified light licensing as an “attractive” way of…

The FCC says it plans to introduce new rules designed to prevent the kind of behaviour that led to Dish saving $3 billion in the AWS-3 auction earlier this year.