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A recent licensing decision by the Hungarian spectrum regulator has sparked fears, including from the European Commission, that the government is edging away from democratic principles. The National Media and…

France’s industry, energy and digital economy minister has called for an international conference on the value of spectrum.

Following a direct order from the Prime Minister to Pakistan’s telecoms regulator, the country’s long-delayed 3G auction will take place on March 29. Thanks to some clever manoeuvring to sidestep…

There is “broad support” for US positions at WRC-12 but a lot of deal-making remains to be done, key officials said at a press briefing held last week. Mobile broadband,…

While Ofcom’s u-turn on sub-1 GHz spectrum (see story below) was the regulator’s most eye-catching change of heart in its second 4G auction consultation document, other important points were also…

At a press briefing today, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) launched a process that will culminate in an auction of 700 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum before the…

Arab states’ priorities for the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) include extending mobile broadband services into the 694–790 MHz band and pressing for further studies on the use of software-defined and…

UK mobile operator Everything Everywhere plans to put 25 per cent of its 1800 MHz spectrum up for auction in the next month, according to a report in today’s Financial…

Latvia's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) sucessfully auctioned four out of five available blocks of spectrum in the 2.6 GHz band in a two-day auction held on 2-3 January in the…

Only three of France’s four main mobile operators won a share of the 800 MHz spectrum auctioned at the end of last year – Orange, SFR and Bouygues Telecom.

South America’s first three LTE services, one TDD and two FDD, launched in the space of a week late last year, each using network equipment from a different vendor.

Norway intends to auction spectrum in the 790–862 MHz band in the second quarter of 2012, according to Jarl Fjerdingby, a senior advisor to the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and…

Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) aims to hold an auction of spectrum suitable for LTE in the 1800 MHz band as soon as possible in the first quarter of…

The launch this week of the world’s first joint TD-LTE/FD-LTE network by Hutchison Telecoms International’s (HTI) Swedish subsidiary Hi3G looks set to be one of several such Chinese-owned networks in…

The launch this week of the world’s first joint TD-LTE/FD-LTE network by Hutchison Telecoms International’s (HTI) Swedish subsidiary Hi3G looks set to be one of several such Chinese-owned networks in…