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After years of disputes and delays, Thailand’s relatively new telecoms and broadcasting regulator appears now to be firmly in control of spectrum allocations and is promising to hold the long-awaited…

Following a request for expressions of interest in acquiring 2.1 GHz spectrum, the Norwegian telecoms regulator has concluded that demand exceeds the available supply and decided to hold an auction.

Romania’s telecoms regulator has delayed its planned multiband 4G auction for two months and set a new provisional start date of 10 September 2012, with potential participants having until 13…

Following a flurry of activity late last year and early this year as South African regulator ICASA tried to push through its proposals for the assignment by beauty contest of…

The 2012 Spectrum Act established a $1.75 billion fund to help defray broadcasters’ moving costs as channels are repacked in the broadcast spectrum after the first incentive auction, Federal Communications…

Our top story this month is the growing interest in creating a single mobile network which would be shared by all operators. We examine the regulatory issues this would raise…

While sharing infrastructure is not a new concept for mobile operators, several factors, including the global financial meltdown, are forcing them to cozy up to each other in new ways…

Economists have had a love affair with the mobile sector. Frustrated by years of struggling with fixed line telecoms – where competition was inevitably limited by the incumbent’s ownership of…

Magdalena Gaj, head of Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE), has announced that the country’s long-awaited 1800 MHz spectrum auction will be launched in late July 2012. This latest move…

Denmark’s 800 MHz auction has ended with three of the four mobile operators who picked up 2.6 GHz spectrum in May 2010 also winning licences in the lower band. This…

Electric cars that recharge wirelessly as you drive along the motorway or wait at traffic lights. Context-aware mobile devices that automatically text your spouse when you’re nearly home or order…

Administered incentive pricing (AIP) has led to more efficient spectrum use, according to Ofcom’s director of international spectrum policy Chris Woolford.

Market-based spectrum management policies are the only way to meet the burgeoning demand for mobile broadband and innovation, Intel executive director for communications and associate general counsel Peter Pitsch said…

Fear of litigation appears to have induced a state of paralysis in the UK ministry responsible for telecommunications and regulator Ofcom when it comes to releasing spectrum for LTE.

Europe must move much faster to square competing the spectrum demands of broadcasters and mobile operators if it is to avoid being left behind in the global debate on the…