The Australian regulator, ACMA has issued a consultation on its proposal to remake its legislative instruments for the 2 GHz band.  ACMA's current instruments expire in October next year, but ACMA wants to maintain these instruments without significant changes. Read more...

The Australian regulator has released the first in a planned series of discussion documents giving its proposals to develop a future spectrum management strategy to meet the long-term needs of the mobile broadband industry while ensuring the needs of incumbent users are also taken into account. The paper looks at… Read more...

The Australian government has launched a public consultation on issues related to the siting of satellite Earth stations. Such stations have historically been situated in city areas because of the lack of reliable broadband infrastructure and the need for staff and operational support to be nearby, ACMA says. Given the… Read more...

Following its strategy plan for the 1800 MHz band which was released in October 2012, the Australian regulator has issued the first of three planned consultation documents and invited stakeholders to respond to each as they are published, although the final one is not expected to be released until June… Read more...

The Australian telecoms and broadcast regulator has issued a consultation document addressing the issue of non-compliance with the country's current Earth receive station licensing requirements. The document identifies areas of non-compliance and addresses potential solutions before providing an analysis of the ACMA's preferred approach against its "Principles of Spectrum Management".… Read more...