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Argentine president Javier Milei has announced an agreement between ENACOM, the country’s communications regulator, and satellite operator Starlink to provide free internet coverage to 6,000 schools in rural and remote…

The "Big Tech" firms of Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft all have their own distinctive way of operating, but they do have one thing in common - they are all…

PolicyTracker's overview of how spectrum bands are used globally now includes a section dedicated to satellite bands.

SpaceX has asked the US regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to take action against Eutelsat OneWeb.

One of the side effects of the current AI boom, or bubble depending on your point of view, is a global shortage of memory chips. 

The commercial framing of satellite direct-to-device (D2D) has so far centred on emergency messaging, leading regulators to treat it as a niche use case without coverage and quality of service…

This year's profiles of key mobile network operators have now been published.

US mobile giant Verizon won licences covering 33% of the US in the recent AWS-3 spectrum auction, well ahead of second-place T-Mobile and third-place AT&T.

The PolicyTracker Spectrum Database, available as part of our Spectrum Research Service, has been updated with the latest assignments, including the US, Brazil, Japan and Austria.

Tensions across the Atlantic and the war in Ukraine framed several panel discussions at the sixth edition of the EU Space Forum, held in Brussels this week.

A new research note examines what fixed wireless access (FWA) is and how it has evolved into an established service.

Discussion of the AWS-3 auction in the US has focused primarily on SpaceX's role and the auction proceeds, rather than what FCC chair Brendan Carr is using them for.

I spent this week at the European Spectrum Management Conference in Brussels, and two themes stood out. First, the growing friction between the RSPG and the European Commission over how…