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An unusual thing happened at the beginning of 2022; spectrum management issues made the mainstream news. The news focussed on a last-ditch effort by the US aviation industry to block…

2021 was a busy year for the PolicyTracker team. From record-breaking auctions to bitter controversies, there was never a dull moment in the spectrum world. Here are the five key…

Wishing you a happy holidays on behalf of the whole PolicyTracker team, namely Manuel, the two Richards (Australia and UK), Dugie, Jaroslaw, Jonathan, Toby, Dianne, Catherine, Samantha and Becky. On…

How many licensees are there in the 800 MHz band in Hungary? What is the most expensive $/MHz/POP price for the 700 MHz band in Asia-Pacific? Which EU member states…

The industry-leading reference for spectrum allocations and assignments is now available to PolicyTracker Spectrum Research Service subscribers in an easy-to-use online format. The PolicyTracker Spectrum Database provides detailed information about…

An increasing number of regulators around the world are allowing unlicensed use of the 6 GHz band. Change in this policy area has been so rapid that we have now…

The 5G Observatory is funded by the European Commission and assesses progress towards EU policy goals by reporting and analysing the latest 5G developments. Titled 5G in the Digital Decade,…

In 1961 the USSR launched the 'space race' by successfully sending Yuri Gagarin to space, and back. Sixty years on, we are again in another 'space race'. But aside from…

Moore's law states that computing power effectively doubles every two years. In the telecoms industry, a similar kind of law seems to apply, in that a new generation of mobile…

One of the perennial problems in spectrum management is that new demands come faster than ways to clear the airwaves. New technologies are always in development, but even with the…

New iteration of PolicyTracker Spectrum Database tracks 11 auctions across six bands. The last three months included two potentially expensive spectrum auctions. Operators in one of these countries, Pakistan, largely…

Spectrum management is complicated. Engineers, lawyers, policy makers and investors all think about spectrum in different ways. Further, many different types of organizations are relevant for spectrum management, and they…

Being a confusing subject, spectrum managers often resort to talking about frequencies as if it is land. This is intuitive because many spectrum policy concepts apply to real estate too.…

There is still time to book for our Valuing the Spectrum and Spectrum Auctions online training courses which are being held in two weeks time. These two-day courses are essential for…

Despite all of the controversy surrounding identifying spectrum for mobile broadband above 24 GHz, most of the recent 5G deployments have been in the mid-band frequencies, specially around 3.5 GHz.…