Australia's Department of Communications has published its Spectrum Review Report. The report, which has been the subject of consultations for the past year, focuses on simplified processes and greater opportunities for “market-based arrangements, including spectrum sharing and trading”. Read more...

A year after a controversial auction, the authorities reflect on Australia's regulatory framework. Read more...

The regulator has been instructed to auction 30 MHz of "beachfront" spectrum at the same reserve price imposed at its abortive auction in May this year. Read more...

Australian regulator ACMA has developed a class licence that will give the country’s public safety agencies nationwide access to 50 MHz of spectrum in the 4.9 GHz band. Read more...

Several recent developments have led many to question the assumption that auctions are always the best way of assigning spectrum to mobile operators. Read more...

As with the British digital dividend auction of 800 MHz spectrum earlier this year, the Australian 700 MHz auction has failed to meet government expectations but for very different reasons. Read more...

The fate of Australia’s planned 700 MHz digital dividend spectrum auction hangs in the balance as operators wait to see if the government will back down on the artificially high reserve price imposed by the telecoms minister. Read more...

The Australian telecoms regulator has disputed claims that its new strategic approach will put lives at risk because it provides insufficient spectrum for the country’s public safety agencies. Read more...

The Australian government has put back the date of its proposed 4G spectrum auction from November 2012 to April 2013, citing a need to “maximise product certainty for bidders prior to the auction”. Read more...

The Australian government is hoping to get about A$4 billion in spectrum renewal fees from the country’s mobile, wireless access and satellite operators between 2013 and 2017 when their 15-year licences expire. Read more...