Sweden's 3.6-3.8GHz auction has raised proportionately much less than the Norwegian auction earlier in the month. Read more...

This week has seen the UK switch off a single analogue channel in a town of 25,000 people while Sweden has ceased analogue transmissions entirely with few complaints from the public Read more...

As part of its drive towards liberalisation PTS has created a new Spectrum Markets Department. Read more...

The Swedish government will decide on the use of freed-up analogue television spectrum by the end of the year, ministers said at a parliamentary hearing on digital TV. Switch-off is expected to be complete by November. Read more...

A new spectrum management policy document for Sweden is the stepping stone to an environment where all players can compete, but the removal of some of the restrictions imposed by its current legal framework remain a challenge. Read more...

A handful of European countries are inching towards a more flexible approach to spectrum management. This is a very slow process and consequently begs a fundamental question; do Europe’s regulators need to take bigger risks? Read more...

Member states are being asked to specify their position on reallocating analogue TV frequencies as opinion shifts towards pan-European co-ordination. Read more...

A compromise proposal which would have allowed WiMAX and other services in a section of the 2.5-2.69 GHz band currently reserved for IMT-2000 technologies has failed to gain sufficient support. Read more...

The huge discrepancies in member states’ approach to spectrum liberalisation have been thrown into sharp relief by the German regulator. Read more...

The European Commission (EC) is calling for a coordinated but flexible approach to digital switchover, which will make maximum use of the spectrum released after the analogue signal is turned off. Read more...