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The British government today launched a consultation on how to make the best use of what it calls “digital spectrum” following the publication of a final set of proposals drawn…

The meteorological community is warning that plans to identify bands for in-car radar, mobile satellite service, unmanned aircraft and electronic newsgathering could cause interference to scientific services

The German regulator is being accused of favouring incumbents after the announcement of its plans to sell off former analogue TV frequencies.

The US regulator has given itself four months to come up with new proposals for D-block, the spectrum which failed to sell at last year's 700MHz auction. The FCC still…

The current head of the French frequency agency is to be a candidate for ITU's top job in spectrum management.

Should we welcome European regulators’ historic shift to talk about authorisations rather than licences? It may have benefits in Europe, argues Robert Horvitz, but the advantages elsewhere are questionable.

New Zealand has finally got a third mobile operator but the company has launched a scathing attack on national spectrum policy.

A lack of spectrum, legal recognition and safe coordination with existing aircraft traffic are all issues to be resolved before commercial unmanned aircraft services can get off the ground.

Fifty years ago this month, spectrum management began to change. Economist Roland Coase – later to win a Nobel prize – wrote an academic paper which called for a market-based…

Coase’s 1959 article was certainly influential, but how applicable is it today? Has it set the framework for modern spectrum management? We asked the man himself – now 98 years…

Iraq has just been named as the Arab World’s most competitive cellular market by the Arab Advisors Group, replacing Jordan which topped the Cellular Competition Intensity Index the previous two…

The EU hopes to finalize - at last - the review of its telecommunications rules (‘telecom package’) by the end of the year. The negotiations between member states and Parliament…

The sale of 2.6GHz spectrum in November will be the first time Finland has sold a band to the highest bidder. It has previously preferred less market-based forms of assignment.

If the proposed merger between the UK operations of France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telkom’s T-Mobile gets the green light, it adds another complication to the protracted negotiations over the…

Having failed to find a foreign company to be its third mobile operator, with three license awards having gone sour this year already, Iran will try again says its new…