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South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT is working on a proposal to combine auction charges and annual usage fees into a single payment for spectrum.

COVID-19 may have grounded much international aviation, but pilots are regularly finding their radionavigation systems and related components inoperable.

Licensed shared access was conceived as a way to allow mobile services as secondary users in the 2.3—2.4 GHz band. Even with encouragement from the Radio Spectrum Policy Group in…

Without secondary spectrum markets there won't be spectrum efficiency, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist William Lehr. But are such markets feasible?

Spectrum sharing took centre stage at a recent webinar organised by the ITU, with some speakers proposing that the Radio Regulations (RR) should be changed to encourage sharing.

The European Commission has again criticised EU member states for delays in spectrum assignments, suggesting that their policies have been holding back 5G rollouts in Europe.

The new COVID-19 stimulus bill includes the repeal of the T-Band mandate and a law requiring the US telecoms regulator to hold an auction of the 3450—3550 MHz band.

A more systematic survey of nearby stars and better analysis of the data acquired mean we can expect more radio signal "events" akin to the recent one from Proxima Centauri,…

Indonesia completed its first spectrum auction in over three years, but some might say that the recent dissolution of the country's regulator is a more significant development.

Greek regulator EETT has sold licences in the 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands just two weeks before the European Commission’s 2020 spectrum deadlines.

Taiwanese mobile network operators (MNOs) Far EasTone and Asia Pacific Telecom want to share their frequencies in the 700 MHz band and have a spectrum swap as a fallback if…

Brazil is moving ahead with its plan to open the entire 6 GHz band for unlicensed use. More countries in the region, including Canada, Colombia and Mexico, could soon follow.

Reverse auctions in which service providers compete for funding to provide high-speed broadband services have taken off in the US. Why aren't they used elsewhere?

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) announced this week it has launched a review of the European Union's 5G policies, after highlighting that these were “issues of concern”.

Saudi regulator CITC is working on a draft proposal that will introduce a number of significant changes to the country’s spectrum management framework, including expanding 5G services in the C-band,…