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South Africa has finally unveiled its final spectrum assignment plan for international mobile telephony (IMT), but operators shouldn't expect access to the spectrum for mobile broadband any time soon.

Thai regulator the NBTC has relaunched its plan to auction the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands and raised the possibility of future auctions in the 2.3 GHz and 2.6…

The US National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is challenging the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) TV white spaces (TVWS) database system. Are its claims valid or is it, as one database…

US financial regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking legal action against an Arizona-based firm and its backers over an alleged multi-million dollar fraud in which investors were…

Spectrum may be off the EU's agenda for the time being, but one member of the European Parliament (MEP) sees it as something that could benefit Europe's small and medium…

French telecoms regulator ARCEP has issued its first conclusions following a consultation on plans for managing spectrum to enable superfast mobile broadband services.

“Flexible harmonisation” seems to be the favoured approach to spectrum for public protection and disaster relief (PPDR), according to documents prepared ahead of WRC-15 and various other reports. There is…

Francois Rancy has given a press conference at the conclusion of the second Conference Preparatory Meeting, explaining the areas of consensus and disagreement.

Featured this month: the European Commission's attempt to rejuvenate EU spectrum harmonisation policy; calls for a mobile allocation in 2.7-2.9 GHz; whether more licence-free bands are needed in Europe; and…

The auction has ended but the criticism hasn't: industry leaders have condemned the high prices and a legal challenge claiming the process was flawed is due to be heard on…

The European Commission has relaunched its campaign for greater pan-EU spectrum harmonisation, even though EU telecoms ministers have removed spectrum provisions from their discussion of the “telecoms single market (TSM)”…

Late last year, the anti-Apartheid campaigner and telecoms executive Andile Ngcaba advocated a radical course of action to tackle African economic dependence and under-development: the creation of a new ITU…

A company whose main assets are spectrum and intellectual property is funding research into millimetre waves (mmWaves) in the hope of developing an infrastructure ecosystem based on the spectrum it…

John Haine, RF technology innovation coordinator at the Internet of Things (IoT) chip and module-maker U-blox, told a recent conference in London that part of the 700 MHz band should…

Political agreement on allocating the 700 MHz band was reached at WRC-12, but a new proposal from the Russian Federation would make the use of IMT in the band much…