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Brussels says September's Telecoms Single Market Package is needed to stop Europe falling further behind the US in 4G rollout. But do industry and the experts agree? PolicyTracker has been…

Anticipated measures for tighter European integration in the Commission's Telecoms Single Market Package this September are likely to be more positively received than in 2009, according to the influential MEP.

A misapplication of standards has lead to the risk of widespread interference between GSM-R and mobile operators.

A top economist says the case demonstrates the importance of carefully written "use it or lose it" clauses.

Responding to leaked European Commission proposals on harmonising spectrum auctions, leading expert Professor Lawrence Ausubel says coordinating timing and licence duration would be helpful but standardising auction formals would be…

The Georgian National Communication Commission has decided to prolong the licences for two mobile operators.

The former failed state is planning to lay down the law for its telecoms industry and set up an independent regulator.

More spectrum is needed for Wi-Fi, according to a report for the European Commission on the impact of traffic off-loading on demand for wireless broadband spectrum.

The change in regulatory categorisation is being backed by operators and would lead to a substantial reduction in spectrum usage fees.

The US spectrum incentive auction won't free up an adequate amount of spectrum quickly enough to meet mobile broadband demands, so the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should also look at…

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in a move it hopes will spur advanced wireless innovation, agreed to make it easier for unlicensed spectrum in the 57-64 GHz band to…

The operator has begun legal action over September's LTE auction claiming it has the right to use some of the bands for another six and a half years.

The island nation has granted a spectrum licence to the Caribbean telco to provide LTE services.

Continuing legal challenges from new entrants, and possibly government meddling, are rumoured to be behind the decision by the Bahrain Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) to cancel all plans for a…

The regulator has been instructed to auction 30 MHz of "beachfront" spectrum at the same reserve price imposed at its abortive auction in May this year.