The usefulness of auctions is a perennial problem in spectrum management. This question emerged in last week's book launch for The Debates Shaping Spectrum Policy, and in a new country profile now available for Spectrum Research Service subscribers. Everyone seems to agree that auctions are good at revealing how much… Read more...

Speaking at an event organised by PolicyTracker, Professor Cave said there were no substantial grounds to abandon the market-based mechanisms that were advocated in his review. Read more...

Having agreed to pay a high price for 5G spectrum in 2018, Italian mobile operators now want to delay the final instalment. Read more...

Regulators need to err on the side of caution when pricing spectrum to avoid the risk of valuable frequencies remaining unused, says Marc Eschenburg, a partner at Aetha Consulting. Read more...

Don't miss our Valuing the Spectrum online course immediately followed by the Spectrum Auctions Masterclass being held in the third week of October. These two-day courses are essential for anyone involved in buying or selling spectrum licences and there is a discount for booking them together. Valuing the Spectrum is… Read more...

Spectrum auctions and an independent regulatory authority for the telecoms and media industries are under public discussion again in Japan, following allegations of an excessively cosy relationship between officials at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) and executives from telecoms firm NTT and satellite broadcaster Tohokushinsha. Read more...

Eduard Lovin, the deputy head of Romania’s regulator Ancom, has said the agency will postpone the country's much-anticipated 5G spectrum auction until 2021 as the government has not prepared the regulations needed. Read more...

A new collection of essays brings together a wide range of experiences of spectrum management. Read more...

The chief executive of French mobile operator Bouygues says the auction should be delayed “for a few more months” until late 2020 or early 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...

Spectrum policy experts who spoke at a PolicyTracker webinar cautioned against some innovative aspects of recent spectrum assignments, such as auctions with set-asides for industrial applications and auction-less licence renewals. Read more...