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The ITU Regional Radiocommunication Conference (RRC-06) which began last week in Geneva has taken the first decision in what is expected to be an intense five week meeting.

As regulators plan broadcasting frequency allocations for the digital age it is becoming clear that in the UK at least there will be substantial pressure to allocate the released frequencies…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has delayed its auction of spectrum licences for Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) until August 9, 2006.

It wasn’t quite the Cannes Film Festival, which also opened this week, but May 15th saw the beginning of the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) Regional Radio Conference (RRC-06) in Geneva.

The industry, research and energy (ITRE) Committee of the European Parliament is to hold a hearing on allocating the frequencies released by analogue TV switch off.

The growing interest in using C-band for UMTS or wireless broadband is ringing alarm bells for satellite operators.

PolicyTracker understands that the use of L-band is the main proposal to emerge from a working group asked by the European Commission to find more spectrum for mobile TV.

Slotting in the final piece of the liberalisation jigsaw could be worth nearly £1bn a year says Ofcom, which is proposing technology and service neutral licences.

The May issue of PolicyTracker is now available for download and our theme this month is technology and service neutral licensing.

Despite the growing demand for services using unlicensed spectrum the bands are not congested according to the preliminary findings of a European Commission study.

Europe is outstripping the US in setting the regulatory framework for allowing the in-flight use of mobiles.

Ofcom, the UK unitary regulator set up in 2003, has announced the results of its first spectrum auction.

The transition to digital TV is forcing the UK’s users of radio mics out of their current frequency bands and causing concern about the economic impact on the entertainment industries.

Ten years after Guatemala spearheaded spectrum liberalisation there is still no provision for public service broadcasting, leaving dozens of community radios in a legal no man’s land.

Ofcom is expected to announce the winners of the DECT guard band auction early next week.