Interest in the technology is growing now the conclusion of US 600 MHz auction is bringing regulatory certainty, says Kalpak Gude, President of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance, in an interview with PolicyTracker. Read more...

The auction versus beauty contest debate is alive and well in the mobile industry as it heads towards 5G contests. Read more...

A bipartisan group of Congressmen have introduced a law that would remove the US regulator’s obligation to clear narrowband use of parts of the UHF band by public safety and industrial groups. Read more...

The satellite industry sees the mobile sector as a source of revenue growth, rather than a threat to spectrum allocations, in spite of possible future battles. Read more...

The ITU study groups are getting close to completing the final reports which will form the bedrock of the WRC-19 agreement. Some consensus is emerging, notably on 5G bands and some satellite issues, as explained in a new PolicyTracker report. Read more...

A major debate is taking shape for WRC-19 over concerns that mobile use of the popular 26 GHz band for 5G could cause harmful interference to earth exploration satellites in 23.6-24 GHz. The key is to get the emissions limits right, stakeholders say, with a significant gap between proposals from… Read more...

Only machine learning software can prevent a dramatic rise in the number of cases of interference between new satellites, according to the head of a group of senior engineers. Read more...

NTT Docomo, KDDI and Softbank have cautioned against an over-reliance on bid size when making spectrum awards, as the Japanese government mulls a shake-up in frequency assignments. Read more...

The Small Cell Forum has welcomed the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) pledge to change some of the rules that govern the deployment of small cells. Read more...

Non-geostationary orbit satellite constellations are creating challenges for traditional regulatory processes. Read more...