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Our top story this month is the Whitespace coalition launching a European campaign to get access to the unused portions of the broadcasting spectrum.

New US President Barrack Obama’s attempt to delay the switchover from analogue to digital television from February 17 to June 12 was derailed yesterday (28 January) when the proposal failed…

The large-scale introduction of 3G in India continues to be put back with inter-Ministry squabbles, lawsuits, the economic crisis and a looming general election all helping to delay the auctions…

China is finally issuing 3G licences but these are for specific technologies, including the home grown TD-SCDMA standard.

The computer and electronics giants which persuaded the US to open up licence-exempt spectrum “white spaces” for cognitive radio are now calling on European nations to follow suit. However, officials…

The Hong Kong 2.6 GHz auction has closed with what's being described as a "victory for the LTE camp"

Four European countries have confirmed that they will be allocating 790-862 to non-broadcast services; three more nations could well follow suit.

A European project developing mm wave photonics says it can deliver speeds of 10Gb/s at 60GHz for last mile services as well as home networks that can support high definition…

The UK military’s final strategy for trading or releasing spectrum holds few surprises but could offer great promise, industry representatives say.

A two-year ‘sprint’ to define the IMT-Advanced family of technologies begins in February. The US wants quick adoption of new WiMAX and CDMA variants but France and Germany say these…

French Prime Minister François Fillon has confirmed that the 790-862 MHz band will be allocated to electronic communications following analogue switch-off. In practice this is expected to mean using the…

The Hong Kong Office of the Telecommunications Authority (Ofta) launched the territory’s first 4G auction today (Mon Jan 12) and after five rounds bidding had reached HK$489 million (US$63 million).…

A decision on whether or not the US public would get a free nationwide broadband service supported by advertising was postponed until sometime in 2009 due to pressure on the…

It was hyped as the “hundred-year auction”, selling off large chunks of prime spectrum freed up by the switch from analogue to digital broadcasting, but the jury is still out…

The July contest was widely seen as Canada’s most successful spectrum auction from the point of view of both contribution to government coffers and new market entrants.