Speaking at an event organised by UK regulator Ofcom, representatives from BT in the UK and Verizon in the US agreed that the higher spectrum bands are important but device support and assignments are still lacking. Read more...

The announcement was one of many made by FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel during her keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read more...

AT&T and Verizon are now rolling out 5G in the 3.7—3.98 GHz band but there is still uncertainty about interference and Federal Aviation Authority rules. Read more...

Concerned about the potential loss of science spectrum to mobile use, the US House of Representatives science, space and technology committee has asked the Biden administration to come up with a clear message on how to protect it. Read more...

An award-winning paper suggests a new market-based solution to spectrum policy: bounty hunters Read more...

A patent granted to the wireless communication technology company by the US Patent and Trademark Office in July would "liberate spectrum from the grip of the cartel and return it to the common law private property right it should always have been," says one of its co-inventors. Read more...

Emerging technologies with varying resource demands need spectrum rules that are flexible but ensure coexistence without harmful interference, an academic paper says. Instead of centralised spectrum management, could "polycentric governance" (or "spectrum anarchy") be more effective in some cases? Read more...

A report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) provides an update on US spectrum repurposing actions to date, along with ongoing activities examining spectrum reallocation and band sharing opportunities for commercial wireless services. Read more...

While WRC-19 looks to identify potential spectrum for shared land mobile and fixed services in the 275-450 GHz range, the mmWave industry has criticised US spectrum administrators for failing to give shared access to bands above 95 GHz for commercial use. Read more...

The US Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) could be a "great candidate" for the first use of blockchain technology for spectrum sharing, according to Nokia's Seppo Yrjölä. Interest in the use of blockchain for spectrum management is growing, but problems such as regulation, costs and the lack of business models… Read more...