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This month we report on events at ITU Telecom World 2014, which took place in Doha in December. We also note that EU governments are still struggling to reach agreement…

As the use of drones for everything from shopping deliveries to life-saving medical services increases, the question of what spectrum they will use for communications is becoming more urgent.

Canada's industry minister James Moore has unveiled a set of measures that aim to repurpose a large amount of spectrum for mobile broadband.

A combination of an auction and an administrative assignment of spectrum in the 2 GHz band has allowed China Mobile to enter Hong Kong's 3G market. The incumbent operators were…

T-Mobile Austria has been unsuccessful in its legal battle over last year's expensive spectrum contest.

Tanzania's minister for communication, science and technology says the country's phased digital switchover will be completed by March 2015.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which is in the process of gathering information on the possibility of providing mobile services in spectrum bands above 24 GHz, is waging a…

The UK introduced spectrum trading in 2004 as part of its spectrum liberalisation agenda, but the actual number of trades remains low, figures from regulator Ofcom show. Even so, Britain…

H. Sama Nwana, chief executive of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance, used a panel session at ITU Telecom World 2014 to argue that dynamic spectrum access technology could go some way…

At one panel session held at ITU Telecom World in Doha, executives from the mobile broadband, broadcast, and satellite industries sought to make the “essential case for hybrid solutions”.

Nikolay Nikiforov was speaking at a "high level debate" at ITU Telecom World which had as its theme: "Disrupt or be Disrupted to Make Broadband Universal".

Supporters of the wholesale access model see it as a way of providing Africans with affordable access to broadband.

A recent workshop on the use of spectrum for TD-LTE provided a snapshot of the current state of the technology.

EU governments have delayed further debate on and the eventual adoption of the telecoms single market (TSM) package while they work on finding a common position on net neutrality and…

This month we focus on the preparations for the next World Radiocommunication Conference, to be held in Geneva in November 2015. A great deal of attention is being paid to…