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The UK satellite company OneWeb and its French rival Eutelsat recently said they had signed an initial merger deal that could help them challenge the likes of the Elon Musk-owned…

Auctions involving over 1,600 MHz of spectrum have been recorded in the latest iteration of the PolicyTracker Spectrum Database. These assignments arose from five auctions, all taking place in Europe.…

PolicyTracker spoke to Rodney Croft recently. He’s the chair of ICNIRP, the organisation that provides scientific advice and guidance on the health and environmental effects of non-ionising radiation. We asked…

PolicyTracker’s longest-running course, Understanding Modern Spectrum Management, features some of the leading thinkers in the field and is being held as a hybrid event on 12 - 16th September 2022.…

Mobile network operators are quite vocal. They are, on the whole, not shy of telling us what they think about things. They generally speak with one voice—that of the GSMA—and…

Out of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft, there’s little doubt over which company is considered the least sexy. It’s got to be Microsoft, hasn’t it? Feels like it’s been…

PolicyTracker’s longest-running spectrum training course, Understanding Modern Spectrum Management is taking place as a hybrid event on 12-16th September. Delegates can participate online or in person at the central London…

As you probably know, Facebook changed its name last year. It was the second of the four OTT players we profile to do so. The group is, of course, now…

Harmonised European spectrum regulation for short range devices (SRDs) -  particularly the release of the 433, 868 and 915 MHz bands - has played a key role in the development…

US President Calvin Coolidge famously said that "the business of America is business". This is certainly the case for spectrum trading. The United States possesses the only significant spectrum market…

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…