by Richard Handford
The Australian government will release a discussion paper on the future of free-to-air broadcasting in early 2025, says the country’s communications minister Michelle Rowland. Read more...
by Richard Haas
Despite lingering interference concerns, the country’s regulator has confirmed that D2D services can be operated under existing spectrum licences. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The ACCC has given the go-ahead to network and spectrum-sharing agreements between Optus and TPG Telecom, the country’s second and third largest MNOs. Read more...
by Richard Handford
ACMA’s idea to segment the 6425—7125 MHz band between IMT and Wi-Fi struggled to find backers, even among spectrum-sharing advocates. Read more...
by Richard Handford
Telstra and Optus have chosen to delay switching off their 20-year-old 3G networks until the end of October—shortly after Singaporean operators made a similar decision. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The Australian regulator has identified segmentation between IMT and Wi-Fi as one of four options for the 6425—7125 MHz band. Read more...
by Richard Handford
The Australian regulator ACMA is mulling whether to join the select group of countries to use an auction to assign frequencies for satellite services. Read more...
by Richard Handford
Australian telecoms regulator ACMA is to award the 3.8 GHz band administratively through a process that is closed to the country’s mobile network operators, at least initially. Read more...
by Richard Haas
The company now hopes to rely on shared access spectrum regimes like CBRS combined with operator spectrum to provide neutral host networks. Read more...
by Richard Handford
Australian regulator ACMA said the sale of regional 5G licences in two bands raised A$722 million ($470 million), most of it generated by spectrum in the 3.7 GHz band. Read more...