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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.

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…