by Manuel R. Marti
Canada is reported to have raised almost $6.5 billion in the world’s second most expensive 3.5 GHz auction. Read more...
by Toby Youell
Spectrum auctions are often designed to promote competition so as to lower prices for mobile consumers, but consultancy NERA has criticised a dataset that regulators use to assess market competitiveness. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Canada plans to make spectrum available for 5G in the 3.5 GHz, 3.8 GHz and millimetre wave (mmWave) bands in the next three years. Read more...
by Toby Youell
Canada has sold the 600 MHz band for CAD 3.47 billion (US$2.6 billion), which is roughly the equivalent of US$ 1.06/MHz/POP (although his figure doesn't take account of unsold spectrum in sparsely populated regions). Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
US regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering a request for an ultra-wideband positive train control system while in Europe, CEPT is studying spectrum requirements and candidate bands to replace the current train connectivity system. Read more...
by Toby Youell
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada (ISED), the government department responsible for spectrum, has published its "Spectrum Outlook", revealing its priorities for spectrum release between 2018 and 2022. Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
From around 2008 to 2013, several spectrum administrations around the world chose the combinatorial clock auction (CCA) format to allocate spectrum. Fast forward just a few years, and the CCA seems to have fallen out of favour. Why? Read more...
by Dugie Standeford
Canadian plans for auctioning 600 MHz spectrum call for a significant set-aside to encourage greater competition. But set-asides have been tried in the past and have so far failed to expand the country's highly concentrated mobile market, one consultant says. Read more...
by Richard Handford
Operators from countries such as South Korea, Japan and the US attended a meeting held by a group that backs 28 GHz for the first time. Mexico’s regulator was also represented. Read more...
by Kane Mumford
The Canadian government has proposed setting spectrum aside in the 600 MHz band for smaller regional providers but Bell, one of the country's biggest telcos, says those in the running are in fact “large, well-capitalized incumbent cable companies” who don't need any financial concessions. Read more...