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PolicyTracker has heard that regulatory affairs departments of mobile operators are increasingly being seen by boards as income generators rather than cost centres.

Seriously now: are we facing an imminent lack of spectrum due to exponential data demand or are we not? Answers, please, in the context of the European Parliament confirming the timetable for…

3GPP’s Release 15 will probably bear the “5G stamp”. This means that there is nothing to stop marketers calling LTE and LTE-advanced technology included in the final documentation “5G” when…

Make the Air Fair’s campaign may be an oversimplification of the facts. Still, the people have spoken. What will Ofcom do about it?

As the UK broadband PPDR network is called into question by parliament, regulators around the world will be looking to the project to see what lessons they can learn.

Here at Policytracker we were mildly annoyed when Europe’s regulators in the RSPG decided to identify 26 GHz as a 5G “pioneer band” along with 3.5 GHz and 700 MHz.

5G is like the great Gold Rush of the American West, except no one knows if there is actually any gold. But if there is, should mobile be digging for…

Brussels will be involved in every aspect of 5G development. The FCC won't. We're in a familiar place but this time its important we work together.

It's difficult to be impartial about the UK's vote to leave the EU.

The European Commission must recognise the Brexit crisis by freezing all proposals which reduce national powers - in the spectrum field and elsewhere.

The regulatory framework review survey might have been less leading.

Building digital economies doesn’t have to be expensive, as India is demonstrating to good effect. As the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, drives forward his vision for a Digital India, his…

Whether the Commission is justified in trying to force member states to adopt the EU position at WRCs remains to be seen. The question is, will its strategy work?

Regulators and governments around the world are monitoring the US incentive auction to see if they should follow suit. If much of the profits go to investment firms rather than…

Spectrum policy often seems to rely on a simplistic interpretation of the term, not realising that it is discredited in the disciplines where it was born.