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As the Christmas holiday season begins I would like to say thank you to all our readers. Thank you for your support, your thoughts and your feedback which allows us…

For many people, the acronym "AFC" can only refer to one thing: Arsenal Football Club. In the spectrum world, however, it refers to automated frequency coordination. This is a spectrum…

Put simply, a regulatory sandbox enables innovators to trial new products, services and business models in a real-world environment without some of the usual rules applying. They're used in many…

The world’s biggest broadcaster will soon move completely online, says the BBC director general, Tim Davie, with terrestrial TV and radio channels replaced by IP services. But how soon? Here…

The European Commission has approved harmonised technical conditions for the 1800 MHz and 2.1 GHz bands to allow passengers to make calls, text and use their data services in midair.…

Despite a lack of clarity surrounding mmWave use cases and unproven business models, regulators and industry are examining a range of new approaches to mmWave spectrum sharing. UK regulator Ofcom,…

The timings for our December online courses means they start in the afternoon in Asia and Australia and in the morning in the Middle East. There are two separate courses…

In 2022, the status of spectrum sharing approaches remains highly fragmented. There is a patchwork of bespoke national approaches that generally depend on specific bands and scenarios. One of those…

Telecoms firms used to think about the colour green only when they wanted a green light for a huge merger deal. Times have changed. The telecoms sector was one of…

This December PolicyTracker is holding online training courses with timings suited to the Asian and Middle Eastern markets. They all start at 9 am Dubai/1 pm Singapore /2 pm Japan…

PolicyTracker has completed client research focussing on strategies for dealing with the renewal of legacy mobile licences.

It was a big day for spectrum sharing when US regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) opened the 3.5 GHz CBRS spectrum band to commercial operations. The band is unique…

Are auctions still the best way to assign spectrum? Many people have doubts. Gerald Pogorel, for example, Professor Emeritus at Télécom Paris, told us earlier this year that auctions were…