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Over the coming months PolicyTracker will be examining the key issues for next year’s Regional Radiocommunication Conference. This month we’re looking at terrestrial high definition television.

The European Parliament's rejection of a proposal by four influential member states to introduce an EU-wide system for the retention of electronic traffic data this week has received a mixed…

ART has agreed to hold back from imposing SMP obligations in the mobile sector until it analyses the impact of MVNOs.

It has been called an elaborate chess game between the European Commission and the German authorities and the prelude to the big battle on mobile call termination rates but is…

The European Commission (EC) is calling for a coordinated but flexible approach to digital switchover, which will make maximum use of the spectrum released after the analogue signal is turned…

The BBC has conducted a number of experiments that have confirmed that if powerline transmission (PLT) is used in the same spectrum as a radio service, interference and conflict is…

Regulatory pressure to ensure that ADSL broadband did not cause interference may have been successful in ensuring peaceful co-existence with other services but the failure to address the flip side…

The commercial sector is casting a critical eye over the EU’s anti-spam legislation, which has now been in force for more than 1000 days. Some new proposals are on the…

The commercial sector is casting a critical eye over the EU’s anti-spam legislation, which has now been in force for more than 1000 days. Some new proposals are on the…

The UK regulator, Ofcom, has been stripped of the freedom to set its own timetable for re-investigating competition cases.

The European Commission has made a recommendation aimed specifically at broadband over powerline communications (PLC) systems but rumour mongering continues to hinder widespread adoption of the technology.

Lobbying campaigns are intensifying as Europe’s regulators prepare for a meeting crucial to determining future allocations in the 2.5 Ghz band.

Dr Thomas W Hazlett, former FCC chief economist and leading US expert on spectrum policy, tells PolicyTracker that the currently fashionable commons approach has more limitations than uses.

Since spectrum trading was introduced in the UK at the end of December the radiocomms industry has been keeping a close watch on the Ofcom website, looking out for the…

The imminent arrival of UWB devices in the US consumer market has intensified pressure to finalise a European regulatory approach.