Mobile users want better video calls, streaming television and faster downloads, placing more demands on the limited radio spectrum available to operators. Could handsets that intelligently sense ...

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The high school football season has reached championship weekend, and Canton’s Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium will once again host all seven Ohio High School Athletic Association state championship ...

A spectrum analyzer, engineer Mark Persons explains, is a marvelous tool that creates a “window” into the world of radio ...

In the United States the federal government regulates how wireless spectrum is used. Groups of radio frequencies, called “bands,” are allocated to some combination of government, commercial and open ...

Ofcom must make radio spectrum available for ISPs when it publishes its review into spectrum management in July, industry association ISPA said on Tuesday. The growth in wireless broadband means that ...

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) represent an innovative paradigm in wireless communications that optimises the usage of the limited radio frequency spectrum. By enabling unlicensed secondary users to ...

The government has been advised to bring in radical changes in the way it manages the radio spectrum. If implemented, this could mean that companies would be able to trade the ownership of spectrum ...

Radio spectrum from analog broadcasting should be handed over to mobile broadband services like mobile TV, according to a study published Monday. By Leo Cendrowicz, The Associated Press BRUSSELS — ...

At some point this year, the British telecommunications regulator Ofcom will begin to set the stage for the introduction of 5G mobile networks, by auctioning off the rights to use a chunk of the ...

British mobile carriers and their customers should get more capacity in the coming years – the country’s communications regulator, Ofcom, has launched a consultation (PDF) on the auction of valuable ...