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Telecom Spectrum and Security
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North America National Telecom Trends
Array Sold $2.19bn of Spectrum. The Cheque Went to Shareholders.
Array Digital turned radio licences into cash, then sent most of the proceeds out of the company. The tower business left behind now has to stand on its own rental contracts.
North America National Telecom
Crown Castle Runs the Towers. T-Mobile Still Carries the Bill and the Assets.
An operator can hold the gate key without buying the mast. T-Mobile's tower contracts give Crown Castle management rights over two large site bundles and future purchase options, while the carrier keeps the assets and a financing obligation on its accounts. The two purchase…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Rail Asked for 20 Years. ACMA Offered Five-Year Tickets to 2037.
Australia's rail authorities can keep using their 1800 MHz safety-radio channels under ACMA's proposed transition. What changes is who controls the clock: a licence renewable in five-year pieces gives the regulator repeated chances to decide how long the old network stays.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
ACMA Kept the 100 km Circle. The Telescope Rule Runs Beyond It.
Australia's 2.5 GHz antenna upgrade gives mobile operators more technical room. A radio telescope can sit outside the guideline's usual coordination radius and still hold the operator to the protection rule. That is where this spectrum bargain gets expensive.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Sweden Gave Its Emergency Network a TV Band. The Licence Comes with a Leash.
The Swedish state reserved a scarce slice of 700 MHz spectrum for the radio network intended to replace Rakel. The permit lets its civil-defence agency build SWEN without an open contest for the block. It also puts soldiers, television viewers and a domestic clock inside the…
CASE FILE
The FAA Knows the Signal Can Lie. It Still Waits for Someone to Report It
An aircraft can receive a radio message that looks ordinary and is not. The Federal Aviation Administration has identified spoofing, jamming and interference as threats to aviation communications. It also told federal auditors that its tools do not yet give it defined, continuous…
CASE FILE
Washington Banned Five Suppliers. Its Affiliate Map Stayed in Two Offices
The federal government can name the five telecommunications and surveillance companies it does not want in its purchases. Naming a corporate relative is harder. In May 2026, the General Services Administration said it had assembled roughly 700 subsidiary and affiliate leads. The…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Albury's FM Upgrade Has a Five-Switch Lock. Two Switches Are in Wagga Wagga.
A commercial station wants a new frequency and a bigger transmitter. Australia's communications regulator has written the launch sequence around two community broadcasters, three towns and five prior transmission events. One of those events carries a transmitter number that the…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Five Broadcast Permissions Share One April Deadline
Australia lets five kinds of radio and television service operate under class licences without individual service applications or fees. The instrument granting that shortcut expires on 1 April 2027. ACMA wants to renew the paper before the calendar does the job for it.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Albury's Commercial FM Upgrade Starts by Moving the Community Station
ACMA's proposed 2AY conversion uses 107.3 MHz, where 2REM already broadcasts. The commercial switch begins with a community-radio retune, then two separate 28-day retirement clocks.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
ACMA Wants Event-Radio Engineers to Pick the Frequency. The Big City Jobs Stay In-House.
Australia proposes moving most short-event FM frequency planning to accredited specialists. The regulator would still issue the licence, and city transmitters above 100 W would still land on its own desk.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
PTS Opens Local 5G. Your Next Building Needs Another Application.
Sweden has opened 260 MHz for local wireless networks. A port or factory can seek its own 5G frequencies, but the permit follows a property boundary while interference and operations do not.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
PTS Wants to Auction 90 MHz. Bidders Must Bring Their Own Uplink.
Sweden's proposed 1500 MHz permits would last nearly 25 years, with no build-out obligation and no spectrum cap. The band can send data down; the winning network must already know how to send it back.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ofcom Stops Making Satellite Downlink Match Its Uplink
A UK gateway may now ask for more receiving spectrum than transmitting spectrum. The old ratio has gone; the regulator still decides whether the site can coexist with its neighbours.
Global Institutional Trends
ITU Has a Satellite's Name in Its Ledger. China Wants It on the Air.
A new proposal for PP-26 would study voluntary identity broadcasts from orbiting satellites. The real job is to connect a received signal to the right network filing without giving the broadcast any new spectrum rights.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
New Zealand Says the TV Licence Door Is Shut. One Slot Is Open.
A 514 MHz television licence on the Kāpiti Coast has drawn an application. Anyone else who wants it has until 30 November to step forward before the regulator chooses a sale or a contest.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
New Zealand Is Renewing Radio Licences. It Is Copying the Errors Too.
Commercial AM/FM holders have until 28 April to accept a place in the 2031–2051 spectrum plan. First, they must check the old record: its mistakes were copied into the offer.
North America National Telecom Trends
The National Alert Fires at 2:20. Its Full Report Arrives in January.
FEMA has a 17 November slot for the US Emergency Alert System test. The FCC has two later clocks for the operators: 48 hours for the first account, then until 4 January for the detailed one.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
The Fast Phone Went Dark on the Road to Pangong
TRAI measured usable speed in Ladakh. Its own route tables also found no service in 60% of RJIL voice-test samples between Nubra Valley and Pangong.
North America National Telecom
T-Mobile Took $2.9 Billion for Spectrum. About $850 Million in Tax Comes Later.
The August sale put cash in T-Mobile's third-quarter investing column. It also delivered replacement spectrum rights rather than cash for part of the price, and left an estimated tax payment stretching into 2027. The quarter's clean-looking inflow has three different dates…