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UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has released proposals for upper 6 GHz spectrum to be made available and shared between mobile and Wi-Fi services, which the regulator claims will bring benefits to the economy.

UK competition regulator the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given the green light for the merger of mobile operators Vodafone UK and Three.

Five of UK’s alternative fibre network operators have formed a coalition to push for fairer access to physical infrastructure operated by Openreach.

UK regulator Ofcom is consulting on plans to make spectrum in the upper 6GHz band available for mobile internet and Wi-Fi services to increase capacity.

The UK has announced that it will give Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies a limited role in the country's 5G networks, with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab telling the House of Commons that additional security measures would be put in place to ensure that risk was properly mitigated.

Seventy-eight percent of Britons say they cannot live without their smartphones while 71% say they never turn it off, a report from the UK's Office of Communications covering the last decade says.

In-flight WiFi could soon be fast enough to stream movies and TV shows, after the UK announced some big changes to its satellite systems.

With the 15 year spectrum licences under which Australia's mobile networks operate coming up for renewal, the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) has wheeled out a leading economist to lobby the government for 'conservative' renewal fees.

As Ofcom prepares to allow new users to have licences for the 800MHz and 2.6GHz spectrum bands, will those users get what they pay for? Will those spectrum blocks really be for their exclusive use? And are we in danger of missing some short-term opportunities?