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HDTV is the future say UK broadcasters, but they can’t afford to buy the spectrum to put it on the terrestrial platform. Is this pre-auction posturing or a looming crisis?

The industry waits for competitors’ reactions as European Commission gives ringing endorsement of DVB-H mobile TV standard.

Auctioning the UK’s freed-up analogue TV spectrum on a technology neutral basis could cost hundreds of millions of pounds in re-engineering fees.

The armed forces are often criticised for over-use of the airwaves, but could a technology emerging from the military sphere transform current perceptions of spectrum scarcity?

The FCC is testing specifications for a cognitive radio device which six giants of the IT industry claim will enable the transmission of a wireless broadband service without interfering with…

Italy is the first European country to get a commercial DVB-H network, with Germany, Italy and Spain soon to follow. What can regulators learn from the speed of developments in…

In an exclusive interview with PolicyTracker, Kavouss Arasteh, chairman of the WRC-07 preparatory meeting explains why most countries would prefer advanced mobile services in the higher frequency bands.

An exercise by the Hong Kong regulator is set to gauge the likely popularity of the new Chinese mobile TV standard as well as determine the regulatory approach in a…

Our themes this month are refarming the 2G spectrum, the surge of interest in 60GHz and a comparison of the regulatory approaches to mobile television.

An independent audit of government spectrum holdings is considering ways of releasing frequencies for commercial and other uses. Incentive charging mechanisms for government agencies is one possibility.

Complaints from the theatrical community in both the US and the UK are unjustified, says consultant Michael Marcus. He argues the problem is not an engineering one, but an issue…

The high data rates available at 60GHz are being proposed as the ideal solution for wirelessly connecting to high definition TVs. But will this complement UWB or be a competitor?

A Commission Communication gives a four point plan for implementing technology and service neutrality in the broadcasting, mobile and wireless broadband frequencies as soon as possible.

ITU confirms WiMAX IMT-2000 submission and urges stakeholders to monitor new webpage.

The Commission’s liberalisation agenda gets the broad backing of the European Parliament but MEPs’ worries about the effect on TV and radio were reflected in the narrowness of some votes.