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Syria has set a reserve price of €90 million for the mobile licence it expects to auction later this year.

When the Coalition government took office in the UK last May and Ed Vaizey was appointed communications minister, PolicyTracker was quickly on the phone to his office requesting an interview…

US president Barack Obama hopes to raise nearly $28 billion through spectrum incentive auctions and to spend $3 billion of it on research and development of emerging wireless technologies and…

This year Costa Rica will become one of the last countries in Latin America to open its telecoms market to foreign competition. Two of the region’s largest mobile operators have…

The European Commission continues to search for a solution to the soaring voice and data roaming fees that continue to plague mobile phone users. One idea is for a pan-European…

In a move that suggests Turkmenistan could get up to three new mobile operators, the country's president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow has said local firms and state-owned operator Altyn Asyr should form…

Europe’s telecoms market has reached a “make or break” point and will lag behind if policymakers do not liberalise as much spectrum as is needed, MEP Gunnar Hökmark said at…

Having sold off the US spectrum it used for mobile broadcasting service FLO TV, wireless technology company Qualcomm is now urging European regulators to harmonise the 1452 - 1479.5 MHz…

Commercial use of the broadcasting white spaces has come a step closer in the US with the telecoms regulator provisionally appointing nine companies as device database administrators.

A waiver from US regulator the FCC makes LightSquared’s planned national LTE network more financially feasible as consumers will no longer need to connect via dual satellite/terrestrial devices.

Although the Chinese backers of the TD-LTE standard predict its main future lies in the developing world, some in the telecoms industry think it also has a bright future in…

Greece could earn more than €240 million from refarming GSM spectrum, according to a consultation document released by the country's telecoms regulator the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT).

South Africa’s long-delayed plan to license 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz spectrum appears to be inching forward again, although the timing and process remain unclear.

France’s industry minister Éric Besson said earlier this month he wants a second digital dividend to open more spectrum to mobile services, a proposal that will require terrestrial broadcasters to…

In a statement issued on January 20, UK regulator Ofcom put an end to months of uncertainty by confirming the status quo in the programme making and special events (PMSE)…