RCR Wireless takes a look at the regulatory challenges facing the wireless industry, including spectrum issues, potential for additional spectrum auctions, regulations on the second-hand spectrum market, M&A regulations and sitting challenges. As a special bonus, we will provide an annual FirstNet update. Bonus: FirstNet Public Safety Update Presented by CCA

RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer was joined by esteemed guests, including long-time industry analysts Roger Entner, former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth, former Senior Attorney with the Competition Division in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel Lawrence Spiwak and former FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Fred Campbell in taking a look at the regulatory challenges facing [...]

Service providers have been buffeted by the explosive growth in data traffic. Meanwhile many networks remain highly siloed and are becoming more complex even as service providers move to converge infrastructure and adopt more flexible cloud-based approaches. In this webinar, we’ll share some of the challenges that service providers have been facing, cover the key [...]

Canada’s telecommunications regulatory body, Industry Canada, said it would begin auctioning off spectrum in the 700 MHz band on Nov. 19, as part of the government’s plans to bolster competition across the country’s wireless industry. The auction is set to use a “combinatorial clock auction format” using package bids designed to eliminate “the risk that [...]

The United Kingdom moved one step closer to broad “4G” deployments, with government regulator Ofcom announcing the winning bids for spectrum licenses in the 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz band. Those bids generated $3.5 billion in revenue for government coffers, which was well below the $5.3 billion expected to be raised. The latest auction also [...]

United Kingdom telecommunications regulator Ofcom released the names of seven companies qualified to participate in the government’s upcoming auction of spectrum licenses designed to support LTE-based services. Ofcom noted that bidders will include Everything Everywhere, which is a joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom; HKT (UK), which is a subsidiary of PCCW; Hutchison [...]

The European Commission said it plans to add 120 megahertz of new spectrum near the 2 GHz band in support of next-generation mobile broadband services. The move requires member countries to provide access to the new spectrum by July 2014. The decision looks to unify spectrum usage in the 1920-1980 MHz, 2110-2170 MHz paired bands [...]

The Federal Communications Commission has put U.S. spectrum policy on a path to the world’s first incentive spectrum auction to repurpose broadcast television spectrum for mobile broadband use. But broadcasters appear determined to hold onto their spectrum. Carriers are supporting the FCC’s auction proposals, eager to see more spectrum freed for mobile broadband use. However, [...]

When Germany auctioned LTE frequencies in 2010, operators were required to first deploy the high-speed internet technology in rural areas before deploying to the more lucrative urban areas. Now having met many of their rural obligations, carriers are complaining of bureaucratic delays for their big city broadband plans at the Bundesnetzagentur, Germany’s network regulating agency. [...]

When the European Parliament voted on May 10 to place new caps on roaming charges, they included data services for the first time. Telefonica was the first major carrier to respond. The very next day, the Spanish-owned carrier, known as O2 and Movistar to many European mobile users, announced its first standard pan-European data roaming [...]