The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on its plans to award the 700 MHz and 3.6 GHz bands. The draft plans include measures aimed at improving the country's mobile operators' coverage, such as auction discounts for operators committed to substantive improvements in coverage. Read more...

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on the annual licence fees payable by UK Broadband for its spectrum licences in the 3.4 GHz and 3.6 GHz bands. Ofcom has recently agreed to amend UK Broadband's 3.6 GHz band licence in several ways. Read more...

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has issued a consultation on its Annual Plan for 2019/2020. It includes information about its plans to auction the 700 MHz and 3.6 - 3.8 GHz bands. Read more...

Ofcom is holding a consultation on the United Kingdom's preparations for World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19). The consultation is seeking feedback on Ofcom's views and priorities for WRC-19 including Ofcom's views on the proposed 5G bands.   Read more...

The United Kingdom's Ofcom is seeking views on the regulator's plans for supporting programme-making and special event (PMSE) users as they are moved out of the 700 MHz band. As part of plans to clear incumbent services from the 700 MHz band in order to make it available for mobile… Read more...

The United Kingdom's Ofcom has called for expressions of interest in using small scale digital audio broadcasting (DAB). Existing licences cover regions and the small scale licences could be at most 40% of the size of the current licences. The full consultation document can be viewed here. Read more...

The United Kingdom's Ofcom has published a consultation seeking feedback on extending the unlicensed portion of the 57 - 71 GHz band and making changes to the technical conditions. The proposals apply to both short range devices and fixed wireless systems. Full details can be found on Ofcom's website here and… Read more...

UK Broadband has asked to change its the licence in the lower of its two frequency blocks in this band. It wants to shift it down by 5 MHz and surrendering its rights to use 4 MHz of spectrum. Ofcom is minded to agree but is inviting comments. The full consultation… Read more...

The UK's Ofcom is consulting on levels of annual licence fees (ALFs) for 900 MHz and 1800 MHz spectrum, to be paid by mobile network operators. Full details can be found in the official consultation documents which are available on Ofcom's website here. Read more...

PolicyTracker understands that Ofcom intends to consult on measures to enhance sharing in the 3.8-4.2 GHz band by the end of 2018. Ofcom is exploring the potential for future sharing between existing and new users.  Additionally the regulator is considering enhanced sharing that could include authorised sharing on a site… Read more...