Continuing disagreement over the prevention of interference in the lower bands is driving developers towards the 6-9GHz bands despite the difficulties this poses for chip design. Read more...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is due to sound a warning over the potential for providers of unlicensed WiMAX networks to effectively monopolise broadband access in certain areas. Read more...

The theoretical concepts behind WAPECS are being exposed to real life problems Read more...

Those sceptical about the practicalities of getting the military to give up frequencies for commercial use may take heart from the scale of the financial incentives proposed in Professor Martin Cave’s review of UK public sector spectrum. Read more...

The European economy may lose billions unless the region develops a common position on the digital dividend. Read more...

The debate over the licensing of GSM and WiMAX technologies has been taken a new turn this week at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. Read more...

It’s nearly a year since the UK pioneered spectrum trading in the EU and the concept has received a further boost in new proposals from the European Commission. However, businesses are realising that a functioning market is a long way off. (Filed 21.10.05) Read more...

It’s nearly a year since the UK pioneered spectrum trading in the EU and the concept has received a further boost in new proposals from the European Commission. However, businesses are realising that a functioning market is a long way off. (Filed 21.10.05) Read more...

The incumbent’s monopoly may have ended but the regulator is short of tools to establish dynamic competition. Read more...

European Commissioner for the information society and media, Viviane Reding, has dismissed out of hand ‘fantasy inspired’ claims that she is trying to regulate the Internet via the back door. Read more...

When a regulator has made a decision does it make sense to leave the practicalities of implementation to outsourcing and self-regulation? Read more...

Industry players to be brought under the umbrella of a new audio visual services directive are increasingly worried that the latest EU proposals run counter to the Lisbon objectives but are their fears justified? Read more...