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ITU elects leaders for next four years

ITU member countries elected two new top officials and re-elected several incumbents during an October quadrennial policy setting conference. They also elected members of the Radio Regulations Board and the…

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Danes cancel auction and award licences to Hi3G

Having only received one application for a new national 900 MHz licence and one for a new 1800 MHz licence, the Danish regulator has cancelled a proposed auction of the…

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CEPT white space report says sensing not essential

Geo-location databases are necessary for white space devices in TV broadcast spectrum but sensing is not, the CEPT SE43 working group says in a draft report on technical and operational…

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EC workshop to assess PMSE requirements

The European Commission begins work this month on a long-term approach to spectrum coordination for the programme-making and special events (PMSE) sector.

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Growing support for LTE in the 450 MHz band

A group of mainly Eastern European mobile operators are lobbying the ITU and their own national regulators to authorise use of the 450 MHz band for LTE.

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Spectrum for LTE: Band shake-up expected

In the second part of our feature on spectrum for LTE, we focus on mobile operators' strategies in the US, Japan and China. We also assess the challenges they will…

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Spectrum for LTE: Making it up as we go along?

In the first of two articles on spectrum for LTE, we ask a panel of experts for their views on the apparently scattergun spectrum strategies operators are adopting for the…