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The timetable of a new law that subjects broadcasting receivers to pan-European regulation is unrealistic, according to one of the bodies responsible for its implementation.

Decker Anstrom, the head of the US delegation to WRC-15, has used a briefing session to outline the USA’s four priorities for negotiations at the November conference.

Poland's mobile operators have now placed their final offers in the country’s long-lasting auction of 14 blocks of spectrum in the 800 MHz band and five blocks in the 2.6…

Questions about what the next generation of mobile services will look like and when they'll be commercially available are beginning to find answers, but spectrum remains one key challenge in…

Senior officials from China Mobile and Huawei emphasised the importance of the C-band for future deployments of TD-LTE at a recent spectrum workshop hosted by the Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI).

The phenomenal success of the US AWS-3 spectrum auction has prompted growing interest among US politicians in liberating federal spectrum for wireless uses and creating a spectrum “pipeline”.

Nearly 200 licences won by Dish “designated entities” ruled ineligible as small businesses in the AWS-3 spectrum auction will be handed back for re-auction, with the companies concerned held liable…

Poland’s Ministry of Administration and Digitisation has decided to introduce a new regulation designed to accelerate the country's 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz auction.

A company promising to deploy thousands of low Earth orbit satellites has proposed the study of changes to the regulatory process that operators need to follow to gain access to…

Satellite operator Inmarsat and German telco Deutsche Telekom have put aside their differences and agreed to work together to develop a "European Aviation Network" (EAN).

ITU deputy secretary-general Malcolm Johnson has told PolicyTracker that he is (and always has been) open to the reform of the ITU. This includes reviewing the way the ITU elects…

This month we bring you the latest developments in the preparations for WRC-15, focusing in particular on global flight tracking, the 3.4-3.6 GHz band, the 470-694 MHz band and satellite…

South Korea may be putting together a multi-country proposal (MCP) that would put the use of the 28 GHz band for 5G on the agenda for WRC-19.

Major vendors and some Asian operators suggest prioritising the use of spectrum up to 40 GHz for enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) use cases, while other industry players are inclined to…

Global telecoms standardisation body the 3GPP has decided on its approach to a narrowband Internet of Things (IoT) solution for mobile operators.