The UK's shift from analogue to digital TV ended quietly and successfully on 23 October. The big question now is what changes will digital convergence bring and when. Read more...

The concept of spectrum usage rights, licensing that specifies the maximum level of interference allowed rather than the power that can be transmitted, may have faltered in Europe but it's attracting attention in the US due, in part, to the LightSquared/GPS debacle. Read more...

UK regulator Ofcom has just published its latest report on the findings of its research into whether and how LTE user equipment in the top part of the 800 MHz digital dividend band can coexist with equipment in the neighbouring band. The short-range device (SRD) industry strongly disputes its optimistic… Read more...

QUASAR reports on the business and regulatory case for services using secondary access to spectrum such as TV white spaces are useful but flawed, several observers told PolicyTracker. Read more...

European policymakers urgently need to develop a more coherent approach to the question of licence renewal, says Vodafone’s public policy director Richard Feasey. Read more...

The communications committee of Britain’s unelected upper House of Parliament, the House of Lords, has published a report which is highly critical of the government’s broadband strategy while making some controversial suggestions of its own. Read more...

UK regulator Ofcom has published a decision on the much-delayed 800 MHz/2.6GHz auction following a series of consultations, and plans to put it before Parliament “in the autumn” following a final statutory consultation before it can be passed into law. Read more...

Fear of litigation appears to have induced a state of paralysis in the UK ministry responsible for telecommunications and regulator Ofcom when it comes to releasing spectrum for LTE. Read more...

There’s a huge range of emerging applications for short-range wireless technologies, limited only by our imagination, technology, standards and spectrum. And in practice it is the technology, standards and spectrum that are the limiting factors, said Richard Walker, head of wireless at the Technology Partnership (TTP), at a meeting of… Read more...

A Cambridge Wireless special interest group convened in London in April to consider whether radio can deliver the home area network (HAN) for future smart energy in Great Britain (GB). While wireless is emerging as the preferred technology option, the forum heard that there is no single radio solution that… Read more...