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The European Parliament's impact assessment unit has released a highly critical "initial appraisal" of the impact assessment produced by the European Commission to accompany its telecoms market reform proposals.

This month we report on the European Commission's latest attempt to create a "connected continent" and its implications for spectrum policy. We also consider the continuing European debate about use…

A forum of spectrum stakeholders held at the European Parliament this week discussed the European Commission's "connected continent" reform package.

Finland has at last completed its 800 MHz auction, assigning spectrum to the country’s three main mobile operators for €108 million.

The appointment of Democrat Thomas Wheeler as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Republican Michael O'Rielly as a commissioner could affect how major spectrum issues such as the…

The Baltic republic has become the latest EU member state to auction spectrum in the 800 MHz band.

The decision followed a Finnish initiative to create common European coverage criteria.

New Zealand has completed its 700 MHz auction with a 2 x 5 MHz block of spectrum left unsold.

A special issue of an influential policy journal edited by J. Scott Marcus, Gérard Pogorel and Frédéric Pujol argues that a new phase of thinking about spectrum policy has begun.

EU member state governments have approved the telecoms package but doubts remain as to whether it will be implemented before the end of this Parliament.

The Commission's draft telecoms regulation contains a clause that will make it more difficult for local authorities to block small cell development.

The European Parliament has been debating telecoms policy hours before the European Council is due to deliberate on the digital agenda.

As Poland prepares to auction 800 MHz spectrum later this year, T-Mobile has complained to the the authorities about an agreement to assign 2 x 5 MHz in the 800…

Austria has completed its multiband auction for spectrum in the 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands.

Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) is a concept whose time has come, according to a new e-book by William Webb, CEO of the Weightless Special Interest Group.