The spectrum situation is becoming increasingly desperate for mobile operators as more users demand more speed for more intensive services.

Governments and regulators need to do more to support the telecoms industry by freeing up spectrum and helping with the roll out of coverage, the Rotating CEO of Huawei has claimed.

Nokia will trial Artemis Networks’s pCell tech with mobile operators as part of a new partnership between the two companies.

The GSMA has called on Asia-Pac to “align with the rest of the world” so that L-band spectrum can harmonised for mobile services.

Five operators were deemed winners in the Romanian auction of 3.4GHz and 3.8GHz spectrum, which raised more than €10 million.

T-Mobile Czech Republic is aiming to switch off its 3G network by 2020, as it looks to free up resources to feed long term data demands.

Resolving spectrum is the critical priority on the road to 5G, EE has claimed, as BT said education remains key for the nascent virtualisation market.

Ofcom is not placing a cap on spectrum purchases in its forthcoming auction, which will see public sector bandwidth freed up for mobile industry use.

Bouygues Telecom, Free Mobile, Orange and SFR have been given the green light to take part in next month's auction of 700MHz spectrum.

Three UK has said that its 4G service will receive a 50 percent speed boost and improved reliability following the rollout of new spectrum.

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) are working on developing technologies that operate in white space.

Europe is no closer to agreeing how to harmonise spectrum, a European Union lawmaker has claimed.

UK regulator Ofcom has tripled the license fees for the country’s mobile operators to £199.6 million.

Mobile operators stand to miss out on $18 billion (€16 billion) by failing to properly manage their Wi-Fi assets, a new study has claimed.

Europe needs to do more to support the future use of mobile broadband in both high and low spectrum bands, the GSMA has claimed ahead of November's World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC).

France’s Free Mobile has been awarded additional spectrum by the country’s telecoms regulator.

Qualcomm has agreed to sell its UK spectrum holding to Three and Vodafone in two separate transactions.

Germany has closed its spectrum auction after raising more than €5 billion, putting Vodafone, Telefónica Deutschland and Deutsche Telekom through 181 rounds of bidding.

MTS will bring dual and tri-band carrier aggregation to Russia by the end of this year, with plans to also launch LTE in 19 regions on the 1800MHz band in 2015.

Improving mobile data access on the national railway network has been highlighted as a priority in France's forthcoming 700MHz auction, the country's regulator has said.