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As US mobile WiMAX operator Clearwire accelerates rollout in its home market and gets another capital injection, it is now planning launches in Spain and Mexico.

Scandinavian operator TeliaSonera has taken the telecoms industry by surprise by launching the first LTE networks, in Stockholm and Oslo, ahead of schedule.

As concerns mount over potential interference with cable and digital receivers by mobile applications in the 800 MHz band, the European Commission announced it will launch its own tests to…

European telecommunications regulatory reform will boost the profile of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group, incoming Chairman Roberto Viola said. Its top job under the new regime will be to help…

After years of edging ever closer Thailand finally has a 3G service, albeit one run by MVNOs over a state-owned network and limited to the capital Bangkok. Plans for auctioning…

ICASA's plan for assigning 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz has been criticized from all sides. Some say a beauty contest would be better while others say the two stage process…

Neelie Kroes rather than Viviane Reding is set to get the top job in telecoms. The portfolio which includes spectrum will be called “Digital Agenda” instead of “Information Society”

Regulators and standards bodies are considering how to globally harmonise the expanding European RFID industry while helping the railway GSM network cope with interference. Both technologies want to use spectrum…

The takeover of Palestinian incumbent fixed-line operator Paltel and its mobile subsidiary Jawwal by the rapidly growing Zain Group of Kuwait has suddenly and unexpectedly been abandoned.

France’s main holder of 3.5 GHz spectrum, Bolloré Telecom, will start to build a near-nationwide WiMAX network next year, despite having fallen well behind schedule. The company says the service…

A lack of competition and an unusual design feature seem the main reasons for the low revenues in Finland’s first auction.

An intervention from the European Commission makes it increasingly likely that the four year old dispute over technology neutrality in 2.6GHz will go all the way to the EU’s highest…

The review of the Telecoms Framework Directive has finally been agreed after two years of discussion between the Commission, member states and MEPs.

Four 2.6Ghz licences in Finland have been sold for a fraction of the amount raised in similar auctions in neighbouring countries.

Alan Horne leaves the Bahrain Telecoms Regulatory Authority at the end of November after three years at the helm overseeing its transformation into one of the most liberalised and forward…