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UK regulator Ofcom has received an extraordinarily large number of submissions to its consultation on what to do with the frequencies released by the switch to digital TV.

Ofcom has denied the European Commission’s claim that it is allowing mobile operators to pass on excessive spectrum licence costs to the consumer.

Enhancing the flexible use of spectrum will be high on the agenda this summer when stakeholders will be asked to assess the effectiveness of EU regulation of wireless equipment.

How strong are the arguments for making DVB-H the European mobile TV standard? PolicyTracker investigates.

Rarely has there been such a negative reaction to a policy initiative from the European Commission. Most regard it as unworkable and unhelpful.

HDTV is the future say UK broadcasters, but they can’t afford to buy the spectrum to put it on the terrestrial platform. Is this pre-auction posturing or a looming crisis?

The industry waits for competitors’ reactions as European Commission gives ringing endorsement of DVB-H mobile TV standard.

Auctioning the UK’s freed-up analogue TV spectrum on a technology neutral basis could cost hundreds of millions of pounds in re-engineering fees.

The armed forces are often criticised for over-use of the airwaves, but could a technology emerging from the military sphere transform current perceptions of spectrum scarcity?

The FCC is testing specifications for a cognitive radio device which six giants of the IT industry claim will enable the transmission of a wireless broadband service without interfering with…

Italy is the first European country to get a commercial DVB-H network, with Germany, Italy and Spain soon to follow. What can regulators learn from the speed of developments in…

In an exclusive interview with PolicyTracker, Kavouss Arasteh, chairman of the WRC-07 preparatory meeting explains why most countries would prefer advanced mobile services in the higher frequency bands.

An exercise by the Hong Kong regulator is set to gauge the likely popularity of the new Chinese mobile TV standard as well as determine the regulatory approach in a…

Our themes this month are refarming the 2G spectrum, the surge of interest in 60GHz and a comparison of the regulatory approaches to mobile television.

An independent audit of government spectrum holdings is considering ways of releasing frequencies for commercial and other uses. Incentive charging mechanisms for government agencies is one possibility.