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The direct-to-device (D2D) market for satellite-to-smartphone connectivity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years.

We are very pleased to announce the release of a report which we have been working on for the past year as part of a consortium with LS telcom and…

Mobile operators spend a lot of money at spectrum auctions. That's been the case for many years.

That's one of the issues we tackle in our Spectrum Policy 101 podcast by talking to Peter Stuckmann, the head of the Future Connectivity Systems unit at the European Commission.

Spectrum decisions are national, but require coordination with neighbouring countries. All administrations have to make efforts to minimise potential interference between services. This process, cross-border frequency coordination, is central to…

The 6 GHz band is set to be one of the hottest of the hot topics in the run-up to WRC-23. As our updated 6 GHz benchmark shows, many countries…

For nearly 20 years PolicyTracker has been examining the policy debates behind spectrum management but this year we set ourselves a new challenge. We wanted to introduce the subject to…

As the Christmas holiday season begins I would like to say thank you to all our readers. Thank you for your support, your thoughts and your feedback which allows us…

For many people, the acronym "AFC" can only refer to one thing: Arsenal Football Club. In the spectrum world, however, it refers to automated frequency coordination. This is a spectrum…

Put simply, a regulatory sandbox enables innovators to trial new products, services and business models in a real-world environment without some of the usual rules applying. They're used in many…

The world’s biggest broadcaster will soon move completely online, says the BBC director general, Tim Davie, with terrestrial TV and radio channels replaced by IP services. But how soon? Here…