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The telecoms regulators of two small countries on opposite sides of the world have bucked the international trend of calling what the ITU defines as 3G services 4G, and told…

In a response to a government consultation on spectrum management until 2016, a New Zealand telecoms consultant has attacked the country’s management rights regime as being inefficient and bad for…

The UK government’s prediction that it will be able to raise £3.5 billion from an auction of 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum early in 2013 looks rather optimistic when…

Our top story this month asks whether network sharing can bring network operators into conflict with competition law. We also report from the 4th Annual Internet of Things Europe conference…

The year-long debate on the barring of dominant Colombian mobile operator, America Movil’s Claro unit, from the new AWS and 2.5 GHz auction appears to be nearing its conclusion with…

Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) has announced plans to hold an auction of spectrum in the 420–422 MHz band in its recently published regulatory strategy document.

As the momentum builds towards the release of a second digital dividend (DD2) in the 700 MHz band in Europe and some other regions where the first dividend is at…

In our second report from this month’s 4th Annual Internet of Things Europe conference in Brussels, we focus on progress in Europe towards establishing a policy framework for the Internet…

Using white space devices (WSDs) in the UK could be legalised in mid-2013, according to a provisional schedule set out by regulator Ofcom in its latest consultation.

The US regulator's current approach to assigning common carrier licences in the 11, 18 and 23 GHZ bands has generally ensured that licences are available and encouraged spectrum efficiency, the…

The much-delayed Pakistan 3G auction is officially back on again and set to take place in early 2013 following the hiring of a team of consultants by regulator the Pakistan…

Brazil has made significant changes to its analogue switch-off (ASO) timetable and may auction its digital dividend frequencies as early as the second half of 2013.

So far regulators think the positives outweigh the negatives. But will that change in the era of cognitive radio?

Norway’s second auction of the 2.1 GHz band has ended after a single round which only took a few minutes with all nine blocks on offer being sold at the…

The Brazilian government thinks harmonising the environmental rules for installing mobile base stations will bring great benefits in the run up to 2014 but it’s proving politically difficult.