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There are about 30 items on the agenda for the upcoming World Radio Conference (WRC-19) and we have been sorting through them to select those with the greatest industry-wide significance.…

Governments' enthusiasm for filling treasury coffers with auction cash seems to be waning. Is enthusiasm for market mechanisms declining?

Steady progress is being made in releasing 700 MHz for mobile with 30 auctions anticipated over the next three years. Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas are the furthest advanced but few definite…

Where China and Japan lead, others tend to follow. So what is drawing the two telecoms superpowers to take such an interest in the 4.4-4.9 GHz band? Other sub-6 GHz…

Talk of a merger between US carriers T-Mobile and Sprint came to nothing but stimulated lots of discussion about how much spectrum they would have to give up. This made…

There has been much discussion of what 5G will be able to do; how countries can become leaders in the field; and which bands should be used for the technology.…

Beginning with the United States' 600 MHz incentive auction this week, we will be analysing the results and consequences of this years significant spectrum auctions. In the coming weeks we…

Only the 3.4 - 3.6 GHz and 3.6 - 3.7 GHz frequencies have been harmonised for mobile use at ITU level but there is growing support among  vendors and operators…

The 5.1 - 5.9 GHz Band is a key Wi-Fi band that is also used for unlicensed LTE technologies.  Although discussion on extending the band is on the agenda for …

This week we reported ViaSat's criticisms of Inmarsat being allowed to deploy an in-flight broadband service in the 2 GHz spectrum reserved for EU mobile satellite services (MSS) nearly ten years…

A row between members of a small community can be very divisive and many feared the failure to make 28 GHz an ITU 5G candidate band would lead to a…

Which approaches to spectrum policy will work best for 5G? That is the question addressed by a European Commission study published today. Study on Spectrum Assignment in the European Union…

Our research notes this week discuss how views on 5G bands have coalesced since WRC-15, giving an overview of Tier One bands like 700 MHz and 3.5 GHz, 26 GHz and 28 GHz,  where…

It has been just over a week since FCC commissioner Michael O’Rielly suggested removing US funding from the ITU unless it reformed and gave the US more influence over its processes.…

PolicyTracker classifies 5G bands as first tier, second tier, third tier and experimental based on the likely deployment timescale, within five years being the quickest. Today we are concentrating on…