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Our theme this month is RRC-06 and there is both good and bad news for those hoping to operate new services in the released analogue TV frequencies.

No major obstacles seem to be barring the inevitable introduction of mobile phone use on aircraft, with all responses to Ofcom’s consultation paper now in post the June 23 deadline.

Digital switchover in parts of Region 1 of the International Telecommunication Union could be delayed if richer countries are not curtailed from dumping analogue equipment in poorer areas.

The results of the Regional Radio Conference of 2006 may look ‘promising’ but whether the compromise agreement for flexible use of frequency allocations for non-broadcast purposes goes far enough, remains…

With the closure of its consultation this week, Ofcom edges a step closer to defining spectrum usage rights. Here Australia’s Michael Whittaker explains why he thinks the UK’s communications regulator…

The “Utopian dream” of a fully fledged cognitive network may be possible within fifteen years but not before a complex jigsaw of technical, policy and legal challenges is pieced together.

Norway is inviting commercial applications for a TETRA licence which in most other European countries is allocated to the police or emergency services.

The Regional Radiocommunications Conference of 2006 is proving to be a sensitive and complex affair but PolicyTracker has learnt that 2015 is the expected date for analogue switch off across…

Tumbling costs may have caused an explosion of Radio Frequency Identification tags in recent years, but problems with international compatibility, interference and privacy remain.

Tensions are mounting at the ballot resolution meeting for the existing international WLAN security standard 8802-11 which got underway in Prague this week.

It is technically possible to use the GSM bands for 3G says the European regulators organisation, CEPT, but so far only France has agreed to do this and a consistent…

One of the central policy objectives of the European Commission is said to be coming under pressure at the Regional Radio Conference in Geneva where now, in the third week,…

After long and hard negotiations the concession to build Norway’s new digital television network has gone to NTV (Norges Televisjon), owned jointly by the three terrestrial channels.

The June edition of PolicyTracker is now available for download and our themes this month are the WAPI standards dispute and the start of RRC-06.

Mobile TV is transforming spectrum planning in Europe as regulators seek to open up L-band, currently harmonised for terrestrial and satellite DAB.