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New data from the Argentinian regulator indicate that fixed broadband provider Arlink paid $13 million for a multiband package of spectrum, almost 55 times less than the highest bidder, Telecom…

The C-band looks set to be a crucial battleground between the mobile and satellite industries at the World Radiocommunication Conference later this year.

The European Parliament’s “conference of presidents” will have to settle a dispute between parliamentary committees over who gets to scrutinise the European Commission’s next round of spectrum proposals.

European administrations have agreed to oppose adding a series of key bands to the list of those allocated to mobile and identified for IMT at this year’s World Radiocommunication Conference…

The German regulator, Bundesnetzagentur, raised €5.1 billion in its auction of the 700 MHz band, the GSM bands (900 MHz and 1800 MHz) and the L-band (1452–1492 MHz).

French telecoms regulator ARCEP has revealed further details about its planned 700 MHz band auction, which is due to take place before the end of this year.

A proposal by the US regulator to save at least one vacant channel in the UHF band for TV white space devices and wireless microphones when TV stations are repacked…

Nine years on from the GE-06 agreement on broadcasting in ITU Region 1 (Africa, the Middle East and Europe), just over a third of administrations have completely replaced analogue broadcasting…

The comprehensive rejection by a US appeals court of their challenge to the spectrum incentive auction may not be game over for broadcasters, but it does set a high bar…

Italy may struggle to meet a possible 2022 deadline to make the 700 MHz band available for mobile broadband, according to a representative from its regulator.

According to figures presented at the Small Cells World event recently, 11.2 million small cells had been shipped globally by the end of 2014, compared to 176 million Wi-Fi access…

Chip designer Qualcomm has introduced a new technology intended to combine the business models of Wi-Fi providers with the technology of mobile operators.

A US dispute between a company that wants to make robot lawnmowers and radio astronomers may seem silly, but astronomers say it highlights the growing threat to space observation from…

Negotiations over the emergency services network (ESN) contract to provide the UK's emergency services with broadband communications will conclude at the end of this week, PolicyTracker understands.

Mobile operators' spectrum strategies should be flexible and licences should be neutral in order to take account of the mismatch between licence lengths and business plans, according to Orange's director…