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More momentum and work will be needed before International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) in the extended C-band becomes a widespread technology, executives told PolicyTracker.

Four US technology trade groups have joined forces to lobby Congress for voluntary spectrum incentive auctions.

A last flurry of work in the next few months will focus on completing industry specifications for use of sizeable chunks of the 3.4 - 3.8 GHz bands by 3G…

The outlines of the issues that will be addressed at the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) got clearer recently with the release of 500 pages of draft text for the…

Geo-location databases are necessary for white space devices in TV broadcast spectrum but sensing is not, the CEPT SE43 working group says in a draft report on technical and operational…

The European Commission begins work this month on a long-term approach to spectrum coordination for the programme-making and special events (PMSE) sector.

Countries will elect the ITU’s top five management posts, 12 members of the Radio Regulations Board and members of Council next week during a policy setting conference. Two of the…

Countries will elect the ITU’s top five management posts, 12 members of the Radio Regulations Board and members of Council next week during a policy setting conference. Two of the…

A group of mainly Eastern European mobile operators are lobbying the ITU and their own national regulators to authorise use of the 450 MHz band for LTE.

In the second part of our feature on spectrum for LTE, we focus on mobile operators' strategies in the US, Japan and China. We also assess the challenges they will…

In the first of two articles on spectrum for LTE, we ask a panel of experts for their views on the apparently scattergun spectrum strategies operators are adopting for the…

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has eliminated the requirement that white space devices sense the presence of TV channels but the commercial success of white space applications remains unclear.

Brazil is to hold a “super auction” of spectrum consisting of 165 licences in five different bands, including provision for two new national licences and the possibility of a new…

UK regulator Ofcom has published a detailed statement setting out how the programme making and special events (PMSE) industry will access spectrum following digital switchover and the London 2012 Olympic…

Thailand’s 3G auction, which was scheduled to start earlier this week, has been put on hold indefinitely after the Supreme Court today (September 23) upheld the injunction imposed last week…