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This Ofcom consultation has provoked an usually high number of responses and most are scathing in their condemnation of the plan.

Germany’s super auction featuring four different spectrum bands has fizzled out after more than a month of incremental bidding. The final takings of €4.4 bn were half of the predicted…

After 183 rounds of bidding over 34 days, India’s 3G auction has come to a close having raised $14.6 billion for government coffers but failing to produce a single nationwide…

A just-completed award process shows the value that French mobile operators put on 3G spectrum has increased slightly since telecoms regulator Arcep sold three licenses in 2003.

US telecoms regulator the FCC has given the green light for a venture capital company to roll out a nationwide LTE wholesale network using spectrum set aside for satellite mobile…

Spectrum users widely back Radio Spectrum Policy Group recommendations for Europe’s first multi-year spectrum policy programme but the tug-of-war over the digital dividend and other issues continues.

As their share prices go through the floor, India’s largest mobile operators are furious about a new government proposal to charge what amounts to a retrospective, one-off fee for “excess”…

With the UK entering the new territory of coalition politics nobody knows whether the country will continue to be a trailblazer for wide-ranging spectrum liberalization. The BBC Director General, Mark…

Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson are just two of the big names involved in the EARTH consortium, an EU-backed project that aims to reduce the overall power consumption of broadband wireless networks.

The European Commission has today published its Decision on technical harmonisation of the 800 MHz band but also served notice that it may mandate a harmonised approach to utilisation of…

The first part of Denmark’s 2.6 GHz auction has come to an end with the country’s four existing mobile operators each winning licenses.

The International Civil Aviation Organization is objecting to pricing proposals being considered in the UK and other countries.

The European Space Agency is reviewing bids for a study evaluating the "public value" of satellite frequencies now that spectrum trading is a reality in some countries.

Takings from India’s 3G and BWA auctions look set to substantially overshoot the government’s targets despite the nearly three-year delay in getting the process underway and the lack of new…

The outcome of the just-competed Dutch 2.6 GHz auction, which saw only paired FDD spectrum sold in a market-led format, does not appear to have satisfied anybody save the two…