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South Korea has the 2018 Winter Olympics, Japan has the 2020 Summer Olympics, but Europe lacks meaningful targets for 5G network deployment. That's according to Thibaut Kleiner, head of the…

This month we report on the decision by European administrations to oppose IMT identification for UHF spectrum between 470 and 694 MHz. We also assess the progress made towards digital…

As the next generation of mobile telephony arrives, regulators will have to decide how to enable the development of 5G mobile networks that could require channels as wide as 1…

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.