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Polish regulator UKE has relaunched its auction of spectrum in the 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands, despite concerns about the rules of the contest raised by the country's mobile…

UK mobile operators are opposing the government's drive to implement national roaming, even though some of their senior engineers were closely involved in IET research that concluded roaming was a…

The EBU's annual conference on the future of broadcasting in Europe was dominated by preparations for WRC-15.

This month we report on speculation that spectrum could be left out of the European Commission's latest package of telecoms reforms and on the delay to the US incentive auction.…

Consortium of broadcasters argues that the report it commissioned disproves the economic case for a co-primary allocation of the UHF band.

Abdoulkarim Soumaila, the secretary general of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU), says his priorities for WRC-15 are resolving the paper satellite problem and securing the 700 MHz band.

Evicting terrestrial broadcasters from the 700 MHz band by 2020 - as suggested by the European Commission's "high level group" - raises difficult political and technical questions, says European Broadcasting…

With policy makers in several countries seriously considering single wholesale networks (SWNs), a report for the GSM Association (GSMA) argues that the traditional multi-operator approach is better for spectrum efficiency,…

The FCC's flagship 600 MHz auction has been pushed back to 2016.

With the EU Telecoms Council scheduled to meet on 27 November, the fate of the spectrum provisions of the “telecoms single market” (TSM) proposal, not to mention the entire package…

Ericsson is backing GSM Evolution for the Internet of Things (IoT). Meanwhile, evolutionary approaches to IoT based on LTE and UMTS have been approved for 3GPP Release 13, while industry…

As interest in drones ("unmanned aircraft systems" or UAS) continues to grow, one big question is what spectrum could be used for their command and control. WRC-15 will consider whether…

As preparations continue for WRC-15, where decisions will be made on how much spectrum will be needed for future mobile broadband services, three separate papers argue that the model on…

Russia’s Ministry of Communications and Mass Media and the country’s State Radio Frequencies Commission (GRFC) have unveiled plans to offer spectrum in the 1800 MHz band. The forthcoming contest is…

The group that is seeking to make an interoperable Internet of Things (IoT) standard has shelved its white space project and is now focusing on a new standard.