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The increasing economic importance of licence-free applications is being reflected in policy debates on both sides of the Atlantic.

The coming year will be crucial for satellite operators seeking to safeguard their access to spectrum.

In the first 'proper' working week of the New Year PolicyTracker will be examining the prospects for some of the policy debates which have dominated the past few months. Our…

In ten years time, how far will Europe have got with its spectrum liberalisation agenda? That was PolicyTracker's question for the New Year and although responses were varied any expectation…

Our themes this month are the UK's Digital Dividend Review; UWB in Europe and mobile TV via satellite.

Philip Rutnam, Ofcom’s Partner for the Spectrum Policy Group discusses the key issues raised by the regulators plan for re-using the analogue TV spectrum.

Moving from harmonisation to liberalisation will damage the mobile ecosystem and the interests of consumers claims a report for the UMTS Forum. But not everyone is convinced, as Pamela Whitby…

Ofcom say they have made every effort to protect wireless microphone users in planning for digital switch over but industry fears remain.

Ofcom’s long awaited study on using the frequencies released by analogue TV switch off has ruled out giving special treatment to public service broadcasters wanting to provide terrestrial high definition…

The satellite sector looks set to benefit from the harmonised use of 2GHz for the provision of mobile satellite services but with several projects vying for a limited chunk of…

Nobody said it would be easy but nobody thought it would be this hard! At last, however, the harmonised introduction of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) products in Europe is imminent…

“Driving forward a market-based approach to spectrum” takes prime position in the UK regulators to do list for 2007/8.

UK regulator Ofcom today tentatively outlined its strategy for auctioning the coveted 2.6GHz band, but given continued disagreement over technology neutrality at a European level, is the end of 2007…

A report on driving public sector spectrum efficiency says progress is “encouraging” but resolution of the underlying legal issues is still some way off.

In what is being described as ‘real movement’ in certain circles, this week the Radio Spectrum Committee (RSC) gave its nod of approval to the European Commission (EC) Decision on…