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The European Communications Committee (ECC) of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) has agreed harmonised frequency arrangements in the key 2 GHz paired bands (1920–1980 MHz and…

There’s a huge range of emerging applications for short-range wireless technologies, limited only by our imagination, technology, standards and spectrum. And in practice it is the technology, standards and spectrum…

Criticism of the recent Swiss combinatorial clock auction has intensified following the announcement of first quarter results from one of the bidders, Sunrise, which paid proportionately twice as much as…

The Obama Administration came under fire for not doing more to free up spectrum for public interest wireless services at a 23 May New American Foundation forum in Washington, DC.

In what is said to be the first order of its kind worldwide, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on 24 May to allocate 40 MHz of spectrum in the…

Ongoing interference problems affecting consumer electronics devices and programme making and special events (PMSE) equipment have spurred the creation of a cross-industry lobbying group that aims to encourage European spectrum…

In the first of a series of workshops paving the way for rules for incentive auctions of broadcast spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on 22 May tackled the thorny…

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Standards Association has published IEEE 802.11-2012, the latest revision of the 802.11 wireless LAN standard more commonly known as Wi-Fi.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic (TUSR) has decided to set spectrum caps in the 800 and 1800 MHz bands in an auction due to take place later…

The emerging “Weightless” standard for machine communications in TV white spaces reached another milestone in May when members of the Weightless Special Interest Group (SIG) approved version 0.7 of the…

The Brussels–commissioned study has also underlined the inherent difficulties of measuring spectrum efficiency.

Utility companies in the Philippines are lobbying the government to waive spectrum usage fees (SUFs) as they start to build out smart grids for tens of millions of households.

The Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) is doing its best to ensure there is a new entrant in the mobile market following a proposed three-band auction of spectrum for technology-neutral wireless…

The Macedonian Agency for Electronic Communications (AEK) has launched a public call to find a company to build and operate the digital terrestrial television (DTT) broadcast platform and network once…

Over 150 delegates convened in April for a summit to mark the end of the white spaces trial held in Cambridge in the UK. Set up to help the UK…