If broadcasters are moved from the 700 MHz band and new equipment is needed for viewers to continue receiving TV services, what is their incentive to go out and buy it? Read more...

The UK's official weather forecaster, the Met Office, has warned that plans to free up spectrum for short-range devices such as smart meters could cause serious interference problems with some of its forecasting equipment. Read more...

At800, an organisation created to ensure that soon-to-be-deployed 4G mobile services in the 800 MHz band don't interfere with the UK's digital terrestrial TV signals, started operating on 15 March. The not-for-profit entity, funded by mobile operators planning to offer 4G, claims to be the only one in Europe taking… Read more...

UK regulator Ofcom has published the results of the assignment stage of the country’s 800 MHz/2.6 GHz auction and issued the five winning bidders with licences valid from 1 March. Read more...

An exact picture will only emerge when Ofcom releases more details about the UK 4G auction but at the moment values seem to be lower than comparable European countries. Read more...

UK public broadcaster the BBC has renewed its call for the regulator Ofcom to abandon its plan to make the corporation pay for the spectrum it uses. Read more...

UK regulator Ofcom announced this morning that the country’s “4G” auction is underway, with all seven bidders that qualified to take part still involved in the process. Read more...

Plans by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) to clear and auction around 200 MHz of spectrum may hint at a role for the regulator Ofcom in the process. That's according to Charles Gay of Espirito, a company specialising in commercialisation through sharing of public sector spectrum. Ofcom, however, sees… Read more...

The UK government’s prediction that it will be able to raise £3.5 billion from an auction of 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum early in 2013 looks rather optimistic when compared to the sums raised in similar recent auctions. Read more...

As the momentum builds towards the release of a second digital dividend (DD2) in the 700 MHz band in Europe and some other regions where the first dividend is at 800 MHz, the programme making and special events (PMSE) industry has claimed this will destroy “Cultural Europe”. Read more...