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The merged entity will lose its 900 MHz and 1800 MHz licences in 2015 not 2016, but could buy them back at auction.

Work on LTE "as is" in unlicensed bands has been set aside as industry works on a consensus over the need for "Listen Before Talk" features in the LTE-U standard.

Exclusive licences for IMT are often assigned through an auction mechanism but two researchers claim that future licensed shared access (LSA) assignments should be primarily conducted through a modified form…

South Africa's failure to set rules for secondary spectrum trading could affect proposed deals involving four of South Africa's major mobile providers and anger smaller players, according to one telecoms…

A UK company that provides core technology for 60 GHz backhaul solutions for small cells has told PolicyTracker that legislation is making their solutions much more expensive to implement in…

The Colombian government and its independent spectrum regulator have jointly published a report identifying 1440 MHz of spectrum that could be used for IMT.

BBC tests live UHDTV on both DTT and IP platforms at global sporting event.

Rules for TV white space (TVWS) operations approved by Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) will open up around 180 MHz of spectrum, potentially helping to turn the state into a…

A new study of spectrum policy in France advocates the use of licensed shared access (LSA) in the 2.3 GHz band and the appointment of a "spectrum commissioner".

A study presented at a European Commission workshop on broadband/broadcast convergence tentatively concludes that an economic and technical case has yet to be made for such convergence in the UHF…

US federal agencies have until May 2015 to reveal their actual use of a total of 960 MHz of spectrum, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) said in its…

The European Commission has approved Telefonica Deutschland's proposed takeover of KPN's German subsidiary E-Plus.

The 470-694 MHz band is likely to be used for downstream distribution of audiovisual content well into the future, the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) said in a draft report published…

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) encoding could allow radars and communication services to share the same radio waves, according to Friedrich Jondral of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. This would…

Our main story this month focuses on the possible co-primary allocation of the entire UHF band in Europe. We also report on "Li-Fi" technology and on the FCC's bid to…