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Mexican regulator Cofetel has announced that it will carry out a public consultation with regard to self-organising networks (SONs) in February 2013 as part of a general shake-up of the…

Although seven companies paid the $3000 entry fee to acquire tender documents for Nicaragua’s 1800 MHz auction, the spectrum eventually attracted just one firm bidder: the Chinese firm Xinwei.

Brazil's Foreign Trade Chamber (CAMEX) has reduced the level of import tax applied to equipment used for 4G mobile services.

Plans by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) to clear and auction around 200 MHz of spectrum may hint at a role for the regulator Ofcom in the process. That's…

The approval of a new antenna law by an influential Senate committee should help to boost the speed of LTE rollout in Brazil.

Middle Eastern and North African countries could see economic benefits of up to $26 billion if they use the 1.4 GHz band for a supplemental downlink for mobile broadband, according…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make 100 MHz of spectrum in the 3550–3650 MHz band available for mobile broadband using small cell and database technologies, it said in…

China looks set to allocate more spectrum for LTE and award licences to the country’s three operators earlier than expected.

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…