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After winning 3G licences to join the three 3G incumbents, two new players have been promised their auction payments back if they hit subscriber deadlines within five years.

A set of technical rules published by the European Commission (EC) and a set of principles published by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) both aim in different ways to help…

The Obama administration and the mobile industry are fiercely lobbying Congress to authorise spectrum incentive auctions. Broadcasters, meanwhile, have accused the government of buying into overhyped fears of a “spectrum…

Mexico’s largest broadcaster, MVS Telecomunicaciones, may buck the worldwide trend of broadcasters losing spectrum to mobile operators by keeping its surplus spectrum to build out a wholesale wireless broadband network.

Xavier Niel, founder and chief executive of French telecoms firm Iliad, has written to the country's industry minster Eric Besson to ask for a planned auction of spectrum suitable for…

A group of private sector ISPs is challenging the legality of 3G networks being built out by Lebanon’s two state-owned operators, Alfa and MTC, on the grounds that they have…

Following 41 bidding rounds over four days of auction, two of Hong Kong’s five mobile operators walked away with 2 x 5 MHz lots of prime sub-1 GHz spectrum at…

Cross-border spectrum coordination problems are tricky but can be solved with a mix of technology and good neighbourly relations, regulators say.

The European Commission has proposed EU spectrum policy priorities for the World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 (WRC-12). Topping the list is cross-border coordination of the use of the digital dividend 800…

The French government is to commission a study on the long-term spectrum needs of the electronic communications, audiovisual and emergency and security sectors.

Latvia's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) announced on March 23 that it was abandoning plans to auction off rights to use 2.5 - 2.69 GHz spectrum for LTE services starting January…

The Polish regulator is reworking its tender for licences in the 1710 - 1730 MHz and 1805 - 1825 MHz bands following adverse court rulings.

Opening PolicyTracker’s Middle East Spectrum Conference the ITU Secretary General, Dr Hamadoun Toure, said spectrum managers aren’t getting the recognition they deserve.

If, and it’s a big if, AT&T’s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA goes ahead, it will not only leapfrog Verizon to become the country’s leading mobile network operator…

Qualcomm and Nokia have suggested a “third way” for freeing up spectrum for commercial mobile broadband. Authorised Shared Access (ASA) allows sharing via cognitive technologies while ensuring predictable quality of…