As Southeast Asia races to expand 5th generation (5G) cellular network technology, satellite communications, and digital connectivity, spectrum management has emerged as a critical policy issue. The ...

Without adequate wireless spectrum America is at a huge security disadvantage relative to its major competitors such as China. U.S. global leadership is at stake right now, a time of high security and ...

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 ...

In its ongoing balancing act to apportion coveted access to the increasingly crowded electromagnetic spectrum, the Defense Department is aiming its attention at software-based solutions and management ...

In an ongoing paper series, the CSIS Strategic Technologies Program has explored the national security implications of spectrum allocation. The series argues that it is a national security imperative ...

When U.S. forces operate overseas, they must first determine that their radio frequencies do not interfere with local and coalition communications. The manual process of assigning frequencies to all ...

Spectrum management is crucial to our digital future as it provides the invisible regulatory framework enabling efficient and equitable allocation of finite radio frequency resources. Without ...

On November 13, 2023, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released its National Spectrum Strategy (Strategy)—a “high-level blueprint” articulating the Biden-Harris ...

A push to update the IT systems used to allocate spectrum to federal agencies is raising broader questions about the use of radio frequency bands across government. Former government technology ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The recent ...

Elastic optical networks (EONs) represent a paradigm shift in optical communication by replacing fixed, rigid spectral grids with dynamically adjustable frequency slots. This flexibility facilitates ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has called on stakeholders to provide input on two newly released regulatory ...