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Several major companies held a meeting at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 in Barcelona this week to compare notes on LTE Broadcast.

We’ve been here before. There was a big hype around mobile TV technologies such as MediaFLO and DVB-H but they failed. Why should LTE Broadcast be any different?

Typically less than 50% of spectrum already identified for IMT has been licensed by regulators, yet the IMT community are seeking new allocations. Shouldn't regulators and the IMT community alike…

As world leaders gather in Davos to discuss how to improve the world's economic performance, the Indian government is planning to hold an auction that will cost the mobile industry…

At an annual consultation meeting on Ofcom's draft annual plan, the regulator's director of spectrum policy Charles Jenne confirmed it was currently working on future spectrum sharing initiatives.

With the new year comes another Consumer Electronics Show, the annual jamboree for the global gadget industry.

The outlook for DAB digital radio is murky, to say the least. Only 21 countries have regular services (in Band III, 174-230 MHz), and even in some of these, there…

A number of organisations have developed methods of transmitting and receiving at the same time on the same frequency. These 'full duplex' technologies promise a doubling in capacity, but perhaps…

BT is planning its own "alternative" mobile network, yet looks set to buy a "traditional" mobile operator. How does that compute?

We put auction in context as prices pass an average of $1.82/MHz/POP

US company Globalstar is willing to take a huge bet on a paid-for Wi-Fi service. Where is the equivalent risk-taking in the European wireless sector?

The latest development in the mobile data demand saga shows the power of ITU documents.

The BBC is to use the Glasgow Commonwealth Games to host a demonstration of how TV white spaces (TVWS) can be used to stream both live and "on-demand" multimedia content…

Europe's policy makers are struggling to overcome differences of opinion on both the 700 MHz and 2 GHz bands.